Monthly Archives: April 2011

A Popper Prize in Western Australia

Out of the blue, or at least from the western edge of the known world, a Popper Prize at the University of WA.  Who is John Saunders? Thanks to David Miller for the feed.

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Literature from the Antipodes

Troy Camplin points to the productivity of writers from Australia and New Zealand.

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Mark Blaug – would-be but not really Popperian

 On line. Not only an economist – autobiographical reflections of a historian of economic  thought. Mark Blaug probably did more than any other single person to make the philosophy and methodology of economics a growth area during the 1980s. The … Continue reading

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Extracts from The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Mostly from the beginning. Preliminary comments. Something very strange has happened to the thoughts of Popper. For some time he was mostly described as an eccentric contributor to the Received (positivist) View of the philosophy of science. So Popperian falsificationism … Continue reading

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