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Wittgenstein is credited with the distinction of triggering not just one but two revolutions in philosophy,  however it is important to note that they both led his followers into dead ends. Peter Munz wrote a really good book on the superiority … Continue reading →

“the missionary possibility immediately suggested itself of promoting the university’s conception of what is central to philosophical study. This volume is the result.” The object of this investigation is to find where the thoughts of Popper and critical rationalism stand … Continue reading →

“Analytic philosophy is not so much a school of thought as a style or method. It is a style of philosophizing which seeks to be rigorous and careful…” A C Grayling  A C (Anthony) Grayling (1949 – ) is the … Continue reading →

Some comments on  What is Good? by A C Grayling (2003). The bottom line: The issues in moral philosophy that he broached have been left unresolved, with favourable handwaving in the direction of science and negative handwaving in the direction of … Continue reading →

I have been reading Human Action and decided to share some thoughts. Mises is troubling for a critical rationalist. Some of Mises’s proclamations seem adamantly anti-fallibilist, and appear to have been interpreted by many of his followers as such. Here … Continue reading →

Picking up some more points from Luke Slattery’s piece which was noted yesterday. One of the heroes of the article was the philosopher A C Grayling. Another hero of the piece is democracy. So the virtues of rationality, free speech, liberty and … Continue reading →

David Deutsch is the best Popperian after Popper. Here’s one reason why.

That is the heading of a recent piece in The Weekend Australian newspaper by Luke Slattery, an experienced reporter and editor on education, arts and letters. He has  been a sympathetic but critical commentator on postmodernism (sympathetic, like myself, in the sense of being prepared to … Continue reading →

The purpose of  this note is to sketch the similarities between the metaphysical framework that Barry Smith identified as the framework for Carl Menger’s economics and the framework that Popper developed in debate with the physicists. Smith’s story is summarised … Continue reading →

A new entry on Otto Neurath in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has some fascinating historical material on the education reform movement in Vienna and the way this involved the philosophers and psychologists and impacted on Popper. Karl Buhler was a key person, … Continue reading →