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Michael Williams Problems of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology, Oxford Uni Press, 2001. At Amazon. Ernest Sosa, of Brown University, writes A masterly introduction to epistemology and an original contribution, this book succeeds on both levels. Those who know … Continue reading →

Hot off the press, a new book on Learning, Teaching and Education Research. A brief profile. A previous book.

The University of New South Wales is the second biggest university in the state after the University of Sydney. This is the page in the handbook describing the Philosophies of Science unit in the Philosophy School. There are three modules … Continue reading →

Deirdre McCloskey is a passionate advocate of rhetoric in economics as opposed to “big M” Methodology. She is a well-qualified and hugely published economist with a current project to produce several fat volumes of history and rhetoric to demonstrate the … Continue reading →

This is a very attractive and informative site, has it been around for long, I may have seen it and forgotten about it.

Out of the blue, or at least from the western edge of the known world, a Popper Prize at the University of WA.  Who is John Saunders? Thanks to David Miller for the feed.

Troy Camplin points to the productivity of writers from Australia and New Zealand.

 On line. Not only an economist – autobiographical reflections of a historian of economic  thought. Mark Blaug probably did more than any other single person to make the philosophy and methodology of economics a growth area during the 1980s. The … Continue reading →

Mostly from the beginning. Preliminary comments. Something very strange has happened to the thoughts of Popper. For some time he was mostly described as an eccentric contributor to the Received (positivist) View of the philosophy of science. So Popperian falsificationism … Continue reading →

Created by an Australian who recently died in the US. Interesting but somewhat eccentric. A few years ago I tried to make contact but did not suceed.