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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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Author Archives: Rafe
Important CR site
Thanks to Bruce Caithness, a site we should know about, run by Antoni Diller, a longtime promoter of non-justificationism. This should have been on the list of CR Resources years ago, how come nobody told me? What a shame that … Continue reading
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Guides and other e books
The Guide to The Logic of Scientific Discovery has been reloaded with some minor corrections, also the links from the table of contents now work. Other books are now available in addition to the five guides, including my MA thesis … Continue reading
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Popular Popper series complete
With the publication of the guide to Objective Knowledge overnight the five volumes of the Popular Popper series are now published on Amazon, going head to head with Mills and Boone in the $3.99 price bracket. The first, The Logic … Continue reading
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The Popular Popper Guide to The Open Society is here!
The third of the Popular Popper series has hit the streets, or at least the Kindles and cognate apps. Conjectures and Refutations is just about ready to load, then it takes a few hours or maybe a day to appear … Continue reading
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Bridging the gap between Popper and the Austrian economists
Brian Gladish has picked up the importance of Barry Smith’s work on “fallibillistic apriorism” (conjectural knowledge) and the way that this has corrects the unhelpful form of dogmatic apriorism that some of the Austrians picked up from von Mises. With … Continue reading
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The format issue is sorted, don’t ask me how – trial and error:) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BX3ATBS#reader_B00BX3ATBS From the “jacket”. On the topic of jackets, don’t you love the covers which have been produced by Barnes, Catmur and Friends? What a shame that … Continue reading
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Popper guides launch: The Poverty of Historicism
UPDATE: The format problem in LSD is fixed although in both books the links from the table of contents are not working. OK in a preview but not in the live version. Actually The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The … Continue reading
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New book by Philip Benesch
The Viennese Socrates: Karl Popper and the Reconstruction of Progressive Politics. This book examines Karl Popper’s attempt to develop a political theory that draws upon Socratic fallibilism and commitment to ethical autonomy while preserving progressive sociological insights and commitment to … Continue reading
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Jeremy Shearmur, Critical Rationalist Scholar No. 10
Jeremy Shearmur has joined the list of CR Scholars, a belated recognition of his work over many years, starting when he was a research assistant to Karl Popper (CR Scholar 5). Currently a Reader in Political Theory at the Australian … Continue reading
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Popper lectures on line
In 1945 Karl Popper left Christchurch and moved to the London School of Economics where he became the Professor of Logic and Scientific Method. His main course was Introduction to Scientific Method and he delivered a series of fifteen lectures … Continue reading
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