Monthly Archives: September 2010

Playing around with the idea of a Preface or maybe an addendum to attach to several essays in the Rathouse that were written years ago. The idea is to give a sense of the bigger picture of Popper’s ideas before … Continue reading →

Updating, this is the original Page of Rafe Champion. It is free of charge but it became colonised by advertising popups and that plus other limitations helped to prompt the change of site. More additional stuff below the original post. … Continue reading →

Responding to a comment from Lee Kelly, picking up some loose thoughts that I put out about Hayek and Popper. My initial response was to say that I got it wrong and more work is required. Although Hayek opposed the state … Continue reading →

Mario Rizzo made a passionate appeal to Austrians and friends of classical liberalism to rally at the barricades. He mentioned the need to stand with allies. “I venture the prediction that they will fare much better this time – especially if … Continue reading →

This is a draft for some thoughts to put on the Austrians email list. The uneasy relationship between Popper and von Mises has persisted with many of  their followers. Most Popperians are social democrats and many Misesians detest Popper’s epistemology … Continue reading →

At the Vienna Conference in 2002 I talked about Austrian economics as a Popperian Metaphysical Research Program. The paper that emerged from the notes for that talk was not accepted in the published proceedings due to an adverse referee’s report … Continue reading →

Sorry, this post was superfluous, the well advanced draft of the paper was posted the other day (attention deficit) so the previous post is deleted.   This paper is just about ready to go off to the journal of the … Continue reading →

This is the transcript of a science show program about Popper on ABC (public) radio, run by an Oxbridge-trained philosopher. There is archival material from the likes of Eccles and more recent contributions from Malachi Hacohen, Jeremy Shearmur and others. In other contexts … Continue reading →

Someone on the History and Philosophy of Science email list asked for (1) a general introduction to the philosophy of science in the 20th century and (2) something on Pierre Duhem’s thoughts on “good sense” in science. By a stroke … Continue reading →