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Comment on More helpers of Popper by Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:07:52 +0000

All I can offer you is that Dr Leweski used to mark my logic papers in 1954 and my scientific method papers in 1955. He later became professor of philosophy at Manchester University. I didn’t meet him at either the LSE or Manchester. I imagine he preceded Joseph Agassi as Popper’s research assistant.

Comment on Criticism by Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:33:24 +0000

Andrew,

It probably has good and bad points. I know that Joseph Agassi’s paper on Karl Popper which that encyclopedia had requested he write was rejected by the editors. That’s very strange given Joseph Agassi’s background. His paper on Popper is here:
http://www.tau.ac.il/~agass/joseph-papers/Popperiep.pdf

I’m not sure about the paper you link to … I need to go back and reread it, it’s been a while since I looked at it.

Comment on Criticism by Andrew Crawshaw

Andrew Crawshaw — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:45:00 +0000

Not criticism.

I came across this online encyclopedia article http://www.iep.utm.edu/cr-ratio/, about critical rationalism and Karl Popper, was wondering if it was a useful resource?

Comment on Criticism of Salmon on Popper by Andrew Crawshaw

Andrew Crawshaw — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:14:21 +0000

I know this is going to be uninformative for you guys. But I will keep coming back to this post and the debate herein, simply because it is one of the best debates I have read and it was very informative.

Comment on Guides and other e books by Rafe

Rafe — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:04:37 +0000

On the topic of cricket, the Australians were in England in 1972 while I was there, and Greg Chappell told a newspaper reporter that when he went to practice in the nets his aim was to eliminate errors in his technique.

I should have told Popper, but was put off by the fact that he never asked for an explanation of my claim that many the fundamental problems of philosophy emerge from a close study of cricket.

Comment on Guides and other e books by Bruce Caithness

Bruce Caithness — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:50:46 +0000

I actually concluded the Amazon review: We cannot learn anything by unprejudiced, uninformed staring at the world. We have to have a theory in our mind that tells us where to look, not unlike playing a ball sport such as cricket.

Comment on Guides and other e books by Bruce Caithness

Bruce Caithness — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:27:53 +0000

I posted a review on Amazon:

“Reason and Imagination” is an informal collection of essays that Rafe Champion has written with respect to Karl Popper’s critical rationalism. The title could easily have been titled “Imagination and Reason” as a variant of Popper’s conjecture and refutation. The exploratory process in Popper’s view does not result in knowledge that can be justified as once and for all true but rather as preferences between critical alternatives. Imagination is vital as is criticism of the products of imagination.

Rafe Champion, a Tasmanian by birth, wrote, unsolicited, to Karl Popper in 1970 “You will probably not be surprised to hear that most of the important philosophical problems arise within cricket. I also have a hypothesis that historicism could not have been born in a cricket playing country”. The letter seemed to have worked as Rafe developed a relationship with Karl and many of his associates and has not relented in trying to keep critical rationalism alive in the public and academic forum.

This collection of Rafe’s essays may whet readers’ appetites to explore Rafe’s Popular Popper Reading Guides, also available in Kindle, and even some of Popper’s original works.

Comment on books to read by Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:44:26 +0000

Realism and the Aim of Science is now on iBooks.

Comment on A rejoinder to Karl-Otto Apel, a supporter of Habermas by nu

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Comment on Popper’s Indeterminism by Bruce Caithness

Bruce Caithness — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:44:13 +0000

“Emergence” as the preceding posts highlight is critical. Methodological behaviourism tries to demand that researchers confine themselves to the study of behaviour as measured by a disinterested observer. This is analogous to the mathematisation of physics. There are situations when a behaviourist model is applicable but not when imaginative and critical aspects of human cognition are to be considered. When a person is in a coma a different level of freedom or lack of it exists compared with when awake.

Life is an emergent property of physical bodies and knowledge is an emergent property of life, world two emerges from world one and world three from world two.

One can conceive of punctuated equilibria, or umwelt boundaries between “objects” existing at the speed of light, sub-atomic umwelts, physical matter, biological organisms, human intentionality.