Author Archives: Rafe

Curently working on second editions of the guides, taking on board feedback and comments. People who have purchased copies of the guides will be able to obtain the new versions without extra charge. A significant change in presentation is to … Continue reading →

This is some additional material on  Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery for the Popper’s Progress appendix in a revised edition of the Popular Popper series of Guides. While Logic der Forschung was being translated during the 1950s to … Continue reading →

Do we have an attack on fanaticism? The argument in a nutshell:  (1) fanaticism feeds on “justificationism”,  that is the assumption  that everything depends on “justified true beliefs” that are revealed or supported by the correct authority; (2) The CR … Continue reading →

Some reasons for talking about Popper’s “turns”. First, for more effective teaching and criticism of Popper’s ideas. Popper has reformulated some of the traditional questions and people who come to his books after they have started in the mainstream will … Continue reading →

Misreading Popper is the next book on the production line. Table of contents Preface or Introduction The turns and the standard errors introduced very briefly Popper’s Progress   Appendix I of Readers (improved) More on the turns Appendix II  of Readers … Continue reading →

Writing on Darwin’s achievement in his 2003 book In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology, Philip Kitcher advanced the concept of a scientific practice. This consists of: a language a set of statements that are accepted by the specific community … Continue reading →

Interesting! I like to think of Popper as an argumentative carpenter and moralist! A complimentary review of  The Myth of the Framework. And more.  

People who  learned their evolutionary theory from the cartoonist Gary Larson will recall pictures of life emerging from the sea to colonise the land. This was a difficult transition and possibly the first life forms that made the journey were … Continue reading →

Scanning old posts on the site I came upon a reference to a CR fellow traveller, Justin Cruickshank. Check out his website for publications of interest. I would really like authors to get in touch and tell me when they … Continue reading →

Phillip Kitcher is one of the stars in the philosophical firmament. Born in London in 1947, he took a degree in maths and the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge and a doctorate in HPS at Princeton where he … Continue reading →