Author Archives: Rafe

Xmas bookshopping, found the fourth volume of Sir Anthony Kenny’s history of western philosophy dealing with modern times, starting with Bentham to Neitzsche, then Pierce to Strawson, then Freud to Derrida, Logic, Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, … Continue reading →

Interesting stuff on line this week (may not all be new, can be things that I just found this week). http://catallaxyfiles.com/2010/12/10/rafes-roundup-10-dec/

Some more  helpful resources, Joe Agassi on “institutional individualism” possibly the best take on Popper’s methodological individualism, modified to take full account of the role of institutions. Warning, this is a very big file! A recent paper by Agassi and … Continue reading →

An article by Deborah Redman in the Journal of Economic Issues, 1994. “Karl Popper’s Theory of Science and Econometrics: The Rise and Decline of Social Engineering”. Have not had time to read this yet, will look forward to that tomorrow. … Continue reading →

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2010/12/03/roundup-dec-3/

The paper on the “convergence” of Talcott Parsons, Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper during the 1930s has got the thumbs down from two out of three referees with a local history of ideas in economics journal. Comments on the … Continue reading →

A nice demonstration of the profile of Popper and conjectural knowledge in the profession. In The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (ed Paul Moser), OUP 2002 there are two passing references to Popper but not as a serious participant in the field. … Continue reading →

Available from Amazon, a book on critical rationalism by Darrell Rowbottom. See his full list of publications! With  a pic.

The Vitual Conference, the complement or supplement to the recent Mont Pelerin Conference in Sydney is now updated from the draft version which was posted here last month. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2010/Virtual-Classical-Liberalism.html

Radnitzky reviews a  book by Gunnar Andersson which defends Popper’s position on falsification from the standard criticisms. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2010/Radnizky__Andersson_-_Falsificationism_is_Robust.pdf