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Popper as a Conservative or Libertarian
Continuum Press is producing a series of books about Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers, edited by John Meadowcroft of Kings College, London. Twenty volumes are planned and the fourteenth is on Karl Popper, written by Phil Parvin. The full list The … Continue reading
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David Deutsch on Respect for Right and Wrong
From the Taking Children Seriously email list (now located here) Someone wrote on 17/1/01 7:10 pm: Earlier I wrote asking about the TCS understanding of the word coercion.I appreciate all the comments that came back and I think I have … Continue reading
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Anti-Discrimination Laws
Some interesting discussion about anti-discrimination laws here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375774 (The posts by xenophanes are me.) Excerpt: Fundamentally, it’s irrational to force people who disagree with you to do things your way if they don’t see why it’s best — to make … Continue reading
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Deduction is a Mistake
Deduction is a bad idea which Popper accepted. The idea is that certain arguments are “deductively valid”. A valid argument is one such that if the premises are true then the conclusion MUST be true. Deduction thus has an anti-fallibilist … Continue reading
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Popper and the Social Sciences
Rafe discussed “Popper’s legacy in economics and the social sciences”. The most important principle of this sort is that disagreements should be resolved rationally. That means we do not assume which idea is right, especially not based on attributes of … Continue reading
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A recent critique of a priorism
Natsuka Tokumaru is a doctoral student at Kyoto University in Japan. At the 2007 Rethinking Popper conference in Prague she delivered a paper titled “Popper’s analysis of the probems of induction and demarcation and Mises’ justification of the theoretical social … Continue reading
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How far can we get with the Austrian “action axiom”? And who cares?
I will argue that the expansive claims that are made regarding the content of the essence of action, sometimes called the Action Axiom is not plausible. It is possible to dispute the claim on more or less commonsense grounds, and the same case … Continue reading
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“Futile subtlety”: and How much economics did Popper know?
“The more fruitful debates on methods are always inspired by certain practical problems which confront the research worker; and nearly all debates on methods which are not so inspired are characterized by that atmosphere of futile subtlety which has brought … Continue reading
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Cleaning up my act on falsifiability and falsification
In 1972 Jeremy Shearmur reminded me to be alert to the difference between falsifiability and falsification. He was Popper’s research assistant at the time so he was well placed to offer this kind of advice. Unfortunately I did not take it … Continue reading
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For the record – the blogs Oysterium, Catallaxy and Club Troppo.
A few years ago I joined a group of economists on a blog called Oysterium. We never met, it was all done in cyberspace and then after a year or two the other contributors faded away (nobody ever said why) and … Continue reading
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