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Popper wrote a 1956 Preface for The Postscript to The Logic of Scientitic Discovery: After Twentyfive Years. This appeared after almost 50 years in Realism and the Aim of Science (1983). The Preface is the text of a talk titled “On the … Continue reading →

REVIEW OF Thomas A Boylan and Paschal F O’Gorman (eds) “Popper and Economic Methodology: Contemporary Challenges” Routledge, 2008. In recent decades the philosophy and methodology of economics has become a thriving academic industry. Ten years ago Wade Hands noted that … Continue reading →

A strange story, claiming that Kuhn threw an ashtray at a grad student, then threw him out of the course. I call Kuhn’s reply “The Ashtray Argument.” If someone says something you don’t like, you throw something at him. Preferably … Continue reading →

In Bryan Magee’s book Confessions of a Philosopher there is a helpful account of the rise and fall of Logical Positivism, explaining how the positivists and after them the logical empiricists managed to think that Popper was playing their game … Continue reading →

Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings eds Yuri Balachov and Alex Rosenberg Routledge 2002 This 520 page book has 29 chapters grouped under Part I, Science and Philosophy (2 chapters), Part II Explanation, Causation and Laws (6 chapters), Part III Scientific … Continue reading →

A book by Paul  Moser Philosophy after Objectivity: Making Sense in Perspective London Uni Press, 1993. From the Preface Philosophers, among other theorists, have long sought objective knowledge: roughly, knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one’s conceiving … Continue reading →

I’ve written a paper that uses evolutionary epistemology to solve a problem in the foundations of physics: explaining the second law of thermodynamics.

It is time to update the list of CR Resources. Let me know about any books, papers or items of interest that you think should be on the list. Don’t bother to tell me about the CR blog! Here is … Continue reading →

In this paper Gunther Wachterhauser tells a fascinating story of the evolution of ideas about the nature of living matter, and how living things evolved, with a highly speculative theory about the very beginning of life on earth. That is the background … Continue reading →

Yvor Winters (1900-1968) combined the careers of poet, critic, teacher and scholar but he was a marginal figure, sometimes lumped with the New Critics, sometimes dismissed as a simple-minded moralist.  Biographical notes here.  At the height of his powers he … Continue reading →