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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 2018
Popper and Hayek versus scientism
The synergy of Popper and the Austrian economists is apparently not an idea whose time has come just yet. This calls for a study of the reason why the synergy is apparent to some people like the late Gerard Radnitzky … Continue reading
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Review of Malachi Hacohen, Karl Popper, The Formative Years, 1902-1945. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
This originally appeared in the Australian monthly magazine Quadrant . It is reprinted in the revised paper edition of the collection Reason and Imagination. Karl Popper almost came to the University of Sydney in 1945. John Anderson invited him to join … Continue reading
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Karl Popper’s Contribution to Austrian Economics, the Quality of Science and Critical Thinking
Rafe Champion and Brian Gladish, Independent Scholars The Austrian-born philosopher Karl Popper charted new direction in the philosophy of science in the 1930s with Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery 1959). His ideas can be recruited to support the … Continue reading
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Goodman’s new problem of induction, grue emeralds
This is an essay drafted in response to a question in a Philosophy of Science Course at the local university. The reading in the list is the relevant section of Nelson Goodman’s book Fact, Fiction and Forecast in the 1950s. … Continue reading
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