If we did not think in rational and critical manner then I would imagine that we would still be living in caves shivering and frightened of the monsters out...
http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn065.htm This is a poor attempt at criticizing Popper. The author doesn't know the difference between A)...
Kilmeny Niland, spouse of Rafe Champion and webmistress of the Rathouse passed away last week after a lingering illness. The funeral service will be held at...
Read this text of Popper which is being cited as Popper's recantation of his earlier statement that the theory of evolution is a tautology, that it cannot be...
... JE:- Hi Dick, Understanding what reason is _and is not_ has not been agreed on by epistemologists. I think that reason involves at least two very different...
... JE:- Hi Elliot, It is true that "the procedure of observation is identical whether one is seeking evidence in favour of a theory, or testing for evidence ...
The Full Index of my website has been revised to make the bits and pieces on the site easier to find. I hope! http://www.the-rathouse.com/fullindex.html RC ...
... JE:- Darwin and Wallace were the first to come up with an empirically falsifiable theory of evolution via natural selection. ... JE:- Many non falsifiable...
In a 1978 interview with Hayek, he discusses his differences with Mises. He notes he often agrees with Mises's conclusions, but not his arguments. ... If you'd...
Is there any essay focusing on the differences between Popper's philosophy of history and Gadamer's hermeneutics? Gadamer's theses: (1) objectivity is not a...
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/story... JE:- IMHO the USA will have no other choice but to rediscover older values such as the Gold Standard. To be very...
... I think Popper would give arguments something like this (and perhaps others as well): We should try to understand the perspective of historical figures....
... JE:- This means to me we should study the ideas of historical figures in the following way: 1) Study them from the correct historical perspective, i.e....
This paper is a revised version of a paper on the philosophy and economics of liberalism, revised to focus on the challenge by Popper and Bartley to the...
My first simplistic statement is that both are right in the direction they are taking to examining different categories of truth. Gadamer looks at the...
This post has two functions, one to draw attention to Popper's positive achievements in the social sciences, given that much scholarly attention has been...
Cool, I just noticed for the first time today that _Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge_ is on-line at Google Books. Link: ...
... As far as Karl Popper is concerned, it is a common secret that his dogma of life being a process of problems resolution and given that this webpage is...
... Hi. This is a common mistake. Asking Popper's theory to justify itself is asking it to meet *justificationist standards for what theories should be*. But...
... To answer this question we have to set a frame of how Popper would answer. Popper is a scientist of philosophy or philosopher of science. He has developed...
... JE:- My reading of what thrassos asked did not require the "justificationist" position. The question asked if Popper's meta-theory (his epistemology ...
... Falsifiability, like other abstract philosophical ideas, is not *empirically* falsifiable. It is open to refutation by criticism and argument. Popper only...
... This argument is addressed in _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ by Karl Popper. I'd urge you in the future to read Popper's books, and to engage with the...
I came across an article which Chirstopher Hitchens wrote a few months ago, which seems in the spirit of critical rationalism; Hitchens wrote: "It's not just...
... JE:- Thank you for providing a clear criticism of what I wrote. However my contention remains the same: Poppers' epistemology was and remains _critically...
... JE:- I think you may have confused falsifiability with validity. My understanding of Popper is that he argued that his epistemology was itself, _not...
... JE:- Hi Ronald, It is a great pity that JBS never applied the same reasoning to his many other propositions e.g. the evolution of an altruistic fitness...
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