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The work of David Stove was recently raised on an email list as a corrective to Popper’s philosophy of science. This has prompted me to revive a dormant idea, along the lines of the Bent Spoon Award handed out each year by … Continue reading →

Pete Boettke meditating  on the Austrian response to the New Deal and the same thing all over again. Re-reading these arguments one cannot help but think of the immediate application to the world today, and how the policies pursued so … Continue reading →

Popper has a low profile among the Austrians, although Pete Boettke often uses the slogan “think like a Misean, write like a Popperian”.  The two Popperians with the best grip on economics are Larry Boland and Jack Birner but they … Continue reading →

Looks good. The abstract of this paper.  I show how paradigm mentalities help justify rigid opposition to theoretical alternatives and limit critical insight. While paradigm mentalities may be fitting for disciplines that demonstrate Kuhn’s concrete scientific achievements, they constrain the … Continue reading →

The value of Bartley’s take on Popper was exemplified by my experience in a series of lectures to a group of people in Sydney who convened to discuss the Philosophy of Humanism. They met for an afternoon every two weeks over a period … Continue reading →

Colin Simkin became a close and lifelong friend of Karl Popper when they met in Christchurch (NZ) in 1937. Colin was a young economist, only in his 20s at the time and we met many year later,  in Sydney in the 1980s.  We … Continue reading →

Bill Bartley died in 1990 and so he did not have the opportunity to use email or put his work on line. He has an entry on Wiki but very little of his large output is on line. A website … Continue reading →

I have deleted the old post on Popper as a fallible apriorist because it was a draft of this paper which is very close to final. One of the things which came up in the paper is the need to … Continue reading →

Hans-Hermann Hoppe has a video on praxeology. If you are familiar with the line of argument there is no need to sit through it again as he goes through the routine at a nice slow pace. If you are not familiar with the … Continue reading →

One of the often-repeated arguments against the theory of conjectural knowledge can be called the argument from technology. Mises: “The popular prestige that the natural sciences enjoy in our civilization is, of course, not founded upon the merely negative condition … Continue reading →