Category Archives: epistemology

Goodman vs. Falsifiability

Here are some new thoughts and arguments concerning the problem of induction. More than once, I’ve come across the argument that Goodman’s “new” problem of induction can be solved by appealing to degrees of falsifiability. Recently, I came across the … Continue reading

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Colin McGinn on Popper

Colin McGinn is a British-born philosopher now at the Uni of Miami. He has written many books and has some stature as a public intellectual who is capable of debating a wide range of issues. A decade  ago he wrote … Continue reading

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Hans Albert: Critical Rationalist Scholar No. 11

It is a great pleasure to announce that Hans Albert is the latest addition to the list of CR Scholars.  Albert, with the late Gerard Radnitzky, looked after the German branch of critical rationalism and conducted a long-running debate witih the Frankfurt School. He … Continue reading

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The Glass Bead Game

It is believed that Hermann Hesse began serious writing of what was to become “The Glass Bead Game” in 1931. It took Hesse until 1942 to complete it, during this time the world was eclipsed by the horrors of Fascism, … Continue reading

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Amazing book on Lakatos

Before a brief crit of Brendan Larvor’s book on Lakatos, a reminder to check out Joe Agassi’s brief but comprehensive account of Popper’s career, in case people have not read the recent comments on the site.  This is a really … Continue reading

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More helpers of Popper

Some more research assistants who worked with Karl Popper have turned up. Given the passage of time there is some uncertainty about the periods of service, for example the logician Lejewski is a possibility from an early period. Other names in … Continue reading

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New e book in the Critical Rationalist Papers series

Making Science Pay. The papers in this collection address various aspects of scientific productivity, both the production of knowledge and the delivery of economic returns from scientific research, especially research backed by government  funding.  It  is a miscellaneous collection of … Continue reading

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Hamming and Mills on research and scholarship

Very interesting papers by Hamming and Mills.  The Hamming piece is a summary of key points from a longish lecture which is well worth a look if you are actually engaged in research (Google Hamming+your research). The Mills contribution is … Continue reading

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Bartley/Hayek paper published

Rob Leeson from WA has been working in the Popper, Bartley and Hayek archives for some years and he invited me to contribute to his latest collection of papers in the project.  Last  night he was in touch to say that … Continue reading

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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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