Author Archives: Rafe

A heads up for a wonderful CR-related site. Congratulations Joe!

Some parts of Bryan Magee’s memoire, Confessions of a Philosopher, reviewed here. Magee read history and philosophy at Oxford and Yale, then in 1956 he moved to London and into radio and TV. He became the anchor of the leading British … Continue reading →

Mises and Popper had a lot of ideas in common, especially classical liberalism, and they were both founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society but they also had some differences and these prevented them from forming a strong partnership. One … Continue reading →

Critical Rationalism and Critical Realism. I am amazed at Critical Realism, kicked off by Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science (1975) and developed in economics by Tony Lawson. I don’t get it. There is a huge overlap with CR but … Continue reading →

An excellent paper by Paul Knepper applies Popperian Situational Analysis to criminology. The paper appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics. He provides an introduction to Popper’s ideas about social sciences and the methodology of situational analysis (SA) plus the rationality principle … Continue reading →

Prof O’Hear now at the University of Buckingham wrote the Popper entry in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy edited by Ted Honderich. O’Hear has been writing about Popper for along time, his first major book Karl Popper was published in 1980. It was … Continue reading →

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a leading figure in the group of Austrian economists who are based at the Mises Institute in the US. At one stage of his life he was influenced by Popper but he moved on and his major influences became … Continue reading →

The dustjacket of  Mirowski’s collection of essays The Effortless Economy of Science indicates that he questions a host of theories, including the pictures of science  put forth by Popper, Polanyi and Kuhn. So he is a polymath and a giant killer. … Continue reading →