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On Amazon US my score for helpful reviews has hit 666, the Devil’s Number. Will someone please go in and register a helpful vote to get me off the dreaded number 666!

From Hoppe’s commentary on a paper by Radnitzky in Values and the Social Order: Vol 1 Values and Society Eds Radnitzky and Bouillon, Averbury 1995. Unfortunately, in line with his Popperian – falsificationist – methodology, Radnitzky weakens, or even defeats, … Continue reading →

This is the blog of Tony Lloyd. One of my very  helpful email friends picked up a paper on CR that he wrote in a journal and now we are in touch. He did philosophy years ago but pursued a … Continue reading →

The bottom line of this argument (yet to be composed) is that the problems with Popper’s RP in the context of his Situational Analysis (SA) can be resolved quite easily, if: 1. We accept that plans and intentions count as … Continue reading →

A heads up for a wonderful CR-related site. Congratulations Joe!

Some parts of Bryan Magee’s memoire, Confessions of a Philosopher, reviewed here. Magee read history and philosophy at Oxford and Yale, then in 1956 he moved to London and into radio and TV. He became the anchor of the leading British … Continue reading →

Rafe wrote: In a nutshell, Popper shifted the focus from the justification of beliefs to the formation of critical preferences for publicly articulated (objective) theories. Care to offer a defense of critical preferences from my criticism? Context Criticism

Mises and Popper had a lot of ideas in common, especially classical liberalism, and they were both founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society but they also had some differences and these prevented them from forming a strong partnership. One … Continue reading →

Critical Rationalism and Critical Realism. I am amazed at Critical Realism, kicked off by Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science (1975) and developed in economics by Tony Lawson. I don’t get it. There is a huge overlap with CR but … Continue reading →

An excellent paper by Paul Knepper applies Popperian Situational Analysis to criminology. The paper appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics. He provides an introduction to Popper’s ideas about social sciences and the methodology of situational analysis (SA) plus the rationality principle … Continue reading →