Following the Agassi collection which is anticipated in May, some friends of Joe and his colleague Ian Jarvie are compiling a collection for Ian.
My contribution will explore the implications and application of the social turn which Jarvie identified in Popper’s first published work between 1935 to 1945. What does this mean for Popperian exegesis and what sort of program is required to consolidate and extend Jarvie’s insights? What reactions followed The Republic of Science, what manner of criticism and commentary has been published and what work has been done along the same lines.
I will suggest that the “rules of the game” approach is a unifying feature of Popper’s work in science and politics, and a shared feature of Popper and Hayek’s approach to politics and social reform. It could have led to a shared program with Wittgenstein and his followers if they had used his “games” idea in a critical and problem-solving approach to genuine issues in philosophy and the world outside the window.
This is a very uncritical commentary on The Republic of Science.
Hi, Rafe. What a surprise! I am also contributing to that book, and have promised a chapter on Ian’s ‘Republic of Science’ as well. Thanks for your information, so that it can help me not to overlap too much. I basically would like to write something about why Popper’s view of methodology was not more explicitly social, and how could it have looked like if it had been so. I reflected a little bit on this in a former paper:
http://www2.uned.es/dpto_log/jpzb/docs/2010%20SCIENCE%20THE%20RULES%20OF%20THE%20GAME.pdf
Best wishes, and thanks for the blog
Thanks Jesus Pedro, thanks for your generous comment, how come I didn’t see it months ago!?