Monthly Archives: July 2010

I have  been perplexed over the years by the number of times that I have read and heard views attributed to Popper which don’t sound quite the same as the ideas of the man himself,  at least as I understood … Continue reading →

But this is very strange. For what would be the point of our testing our hypotheses at all if they earned no greater credibility by passing the tests? It is not  just a matter of our abiding by the rules … Continue reading →

My summary of The Poverty of Historicism does not adequately cover the last few sections, probably because there was a rush to finish and get on with some other tasks. The sections are: 31 Situational logic in history and 32 … Continue reading →

Jorg Guido Hulsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angiers in France has written a magesterial biography of Ludwig von Mises, running over 1100 pages. This allows sufficient space to permit generous coverage of  the historical and intellectual background with close … Continue reading →

Continuum Press is producing a series of books about Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers, edited by John Meadowcroft of Kings College, London. Twenty volumes are planned and the fourteenth is on Karl Popper, written by Phil Parvin. The full list The … Continue reading →