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For those who did not pursue the links in the Larry Boland CR Scholar post, you missed a treat in the anthropological study of the economists. A sample:

This is lifted from a paper on  Popper’s evolutionary theory of knowledge, prepared for a short radio talk. The paper started with the four-stage problem-solving schema P -> TS -> EE -> new P and there were four aims.

The GMU Program is a label that I used for a line of research that links theory and practice in the appropriate manner. It comes from the work that is done by a mix of Austrians, quasi-Austrians and fellow travellers … Continue reading →

This is a summary of a really helpful paper which introduced the idea of problem-solving as a feature of effective thinking and learning. The paper was in a collection of papers that I bought from the remaindered books table in … Continue reading →

Amazon has added permalinks and also the opportunity for comments on reviews. A couple of people  have responded to a comment that I posted on a review of a book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. These are the three comments. This is … Continue reading →

Taking up Tony Lloyd’s comment on Ryle’s review of The Open Society and its Enemies, and the hint that there were juicy anti-Wittgenstein notes. One of Wittgenstein’s followers, Rush Rhees, was so angry with Ryle’s review that he sat down and … Continue reading →

O’Hear wrote a book called Karl Popper (1980) in The Arguments of the Philosophers Series. He argued that we cannot do without both justification and induction. Since that time he has been immune to the counter-arguments of non-justificationists. The following extracts … Continue reading →

I am just about to address O’Hear’s defence of induction in reply to Popper. But first a check on the problem. What is the point of mounting a defence of Popperism, or CR or whatever? Bearing in mind that the … Continue reading →

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Witt

Popper does better in the Index of this volume (compared with one entry and three pages in Vol 1). Here we find pages 63, 201, 235, 237, 238-9 and 461-3. The favourable impression is not supported by the content.