Interesting stuff on line this week (may not all be new, can be things that I just found this week).
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 Jarvie Towards a General Sociology of Science.
And Ian Jarvie’s very helpful comments on The Poverty of Historicism.
This is my summary of The Poverty.
Jarvie on Popper’s contribution to the human sciences, including a list of 19 major problems that Popper progressed in The Open Society. A wonderful paper!
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.
It is a review of Conjectures and Refutations, The Logic of Scientific Discovery and the “Autobiography of Karl Popper.” In The Philosophy of Karl Popper, (ed. Schilpp).
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 objections.
1.1 It is “rather schematic in form” and makes a case for similarity, not convergence. Point taken on similarity rather than convergence. On being schematic, there is a word limit and only the most essential points could be treated.
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.
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“Cohen’s own argument against a belief requirement for knowing begins with certain insights that he credits to Descartes and to Karl Popper that a natural scientist could ideally conduct inquiries and experiments without believing the favoured hypotheses the scientist employs in those inquiries. Where Popper (1972) understood ‘knowledge’ in a special sense as labeling, for example, theories and hypotheses that a group of scientists have made it their policy to utilize in their work, Cohen speaks of a single scientist as knowing.
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
Session 9 The Path to Development
A Peter Bauer Memorial Lecture by William Easterly. No text in hand, refer to his previous publications such as this review and his Blog.
How foreign aid was invented by accident, and misreading the Marshall Plan as a success.
A reminder of Peter Bauer’s work.
On the ground: Mercatus and Enterprise Africa projects.
Private education & the Third World. E G West Centre.
Extracts from Stanislav Andreski’s book The African Predicament.
The Introduction, Chapter 12 Hidden Aspects of Foreign Aid and Chapter 14 African Socialism.
