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Popper among the epistemologists
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
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New Book on CR
Available from Amazon, a book on critical rationalism by Darrell Rowbottom. See his full list of publications! With a pic.
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Virtual Conference Updated
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
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Falsificationism is robust!
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
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Developing the Third World
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 … Continue reading
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The virtual conference: New developments in economics
Plenary session 7, New Developments in Economics. The Mont Pelerin Society Conference program had papers on happiness in society by Jason Potts, the economist as guru by Geoffrey Brennan and behavioural economics, law, liberty and the quest for the Third Way by … Continue reading
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More new files in the Rathouse
C Wright Mills on Intellectual Craftsmanship. Mills wrote an important critique of the prevailing fashions in sociology during the 1960s, notably “grand theory” which was represented by Talcott Parsons in his post-1937 “general systems theory”, and “abstracted empiricism” which piled … Continue reading
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Extracts from The Poverty of Historicism
Thanks to the Questia on-line library, where text can be easily cut and pasted (unlike Google books) some sections of The Poverty can be found here. The sections are on the practical aims of the critique of historicism, the technological or … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Foundations of Economic Science
This is the last book that Mises wrote. It has been released by the Mises Institute in a new edition and it comes with a very big pitch. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals … Continue reading
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A Virtual Classical Liberal conference program
The theme of this conference is “Getting over the advantage line”. This is for people who can’t get to the live Mont Pelerin Society program. Most of the themes of the live program are duplicated, and there are some additional strands. The … Continue reading
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