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"One of the main tasks for human reason is to make the universe we live in understandable to ourselves. This is the task of science. There are two different components of about equal importance in this enterprise. The first is poetic inventiveness ..."
– Karl Popper
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Congratulations to Stanley Wong and his helpers
A review of Stanley Wong, Foundations of Paul Samuelson’s Revealed Preference Theory: A Study by the Method of Rational Reconstruction. Routledge, 1978 and 2006. This little classic first appeared in 1978 and it is very fortunate that it has been … Continue reading
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Collingwood
One of my aims is to trace connections between the CR program (and especially the six Popperian themes) and the programs of other scholars. Among those at work now, there are connections with Philip Kitcher that will be interesting to … Continue reading
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Melvyn Bragg talks philosophy and the Sosa program
A couple of things, first the strange world of Ordinary Language Philosophy, a discussion with Melvyn Bragg on his program In Our Time, which is a marvellous resource for every kind of intellectaul interest! But what a beautiful image of the ordinary language philosophers! … Continue reading
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John Wettersten on CR
Not hot off the press but a very handy survey, including attention to Joe Agassi’s contribution to the discussion of rationality, CR and non-justificationism in the Popper Circle. Have not read it yet but looking forward…. Picked up off a … Continue reading
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