SF: If the Democrats do sweep to power Tuesday a week, what kind of victory can we expect? Here are three examples of major changes in Congressional...
There is a weekly philosophy program on the Australian national broadcaster (ABC). It is a radio show, presented by Alan Saunders who studied philosophy at the...
Dear Rafe, Popper was absolutely right to stress how fundamental is the problem of demarcating science from non-science. Natural science has made amazing...
Nicholas, ... Which do you feel Popper achieved: 1. a proposal for a demarcation between an activity called science and other activities -or- 2. a proposal for...
Matthew and Nicholas, Please forgive my intrusion. I would like to answer Matt's question in the 'something else' bin. I think that Popper achieved explicitly...
Matt, ... Surely, something else. When I was a college student, my roommate had a poster on the wall that said: Ideals are like the stars. We may never reach...
Dear Matt, As I said in my last email, Popper failed to solve the problem of demarcation. I once drew up a list of the different things one might be...
Keith, I am answering a little off the cuff here, so the following should be interpreted as suggestions not dogmatic assertions. ... I agree with Ken...
Nicholas, I regard the following as true: 1. People generally have aims. 2. This creates problems. 3. People propose theories to help solve these problems. 4....
Matthew, 'Off the cuff' accepted. But my answers may be similar, as what I'm really looking for is some feedback to my essay. It took me a while to figure out...
It seems to me that the debate on demarcation has gone well past the point of diminishing returns. I think it was Bartley in his Bedford College paper of 1965...
Keith, ... 'objective' knowledge. Properly understood, it can be seen to undermine the claim of 'truth' for any and all of our proposals. This simply is not...
Matt, You may have a point when you say you are not sure you see "a lot of value in arguing about 'what is science?'". But then that was not my suggestion....
Nicholas, I'll answer this line by line, something I try to avoid these days. ... OK. I wasn't offering an interpretation of what you said. I was speaking in...
... I agree that Popper did not advocate essentialism. I think the _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ is a great book. I've never failed to go back to it and gain...
In a message dated 11/12/2006 2:46:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rchamp@... writes: ...So far as getting wise about the major problems of the world...
Nicholas, ... So ... aside from the jargon you introduce, where in the above passage is the part that constitutes an improvement on CR? I cannot find it. ...
Nicholas, ... So ... aside from the jargon you introduce, where in the above passage is the part that constitutes an improvement on CR? I cannot find it. ...
"K: That Popper was not a proponent of 'air tight' and 'hard and fast' was/is one of the things that I love most about him. He argued in many passages (some of...
Matt, Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery fails to solve the problems of induction and demarcation. In order to solve these problems we need to adopt a...
Matthew, We are both just scratching the surface. If you can find time to take the plunge then try my essay. For now, again, answers in your text: Matthew...
... Bill Powers has been on my reading list for quite some time, I've just never gotten around to him yet. Given that the forum is a bit underwhelmed with...
... I'm not at all prepared for a discussion on this, so will not comment specifically. However, I was curious if you were aware that Popper himself avoided...
This debate has spread to John Quiggin's blog. John is an economist who advises his students to read Blaug (follower of Lakatos) and wrote that he has "not got...
Matt, Thanks for the good pointers. But yes, I have read, and was not satisfied. I have several problems with Tarskian truth and with Poppers use of it. [I am...
... It was Donal. There was an exchange in the [Karl Popper] group between he and Peter. I contributed only a very little bit. It happened a bit like this: 1....
... I don't see that the demarcation problem is fundamental. How does solving it lead to us solving other problems? ... I should think that disunified theories...
Dear Rafe. I musk thank you a for for the information I got threw your web site. Can you please, tell me somme thing more important about Lakatos' philosophy...
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Alan, AF>I don't see that the demarcation problem is fundamental. How does solving it lead to us solving other problems? It is important if formulated as an...
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