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Location: Sydney, Australia
In My Own Words:
See http://www.the-rathouse.com and you will find a number of papers, published and unpublished, written over three decades (how time flies when you are having fun). You may find that Popper's ideas have wider applications than is generally realised, esecially for skeptics who are concerned about the prevalence and durability of many anti-scientific prejudices. They provide a robust alternativ… Read moreSee http://www.the-rathouse.com and you will find a number of papers, published and unpublished, written over three decades (how time flies when you are having fun).
You may find that Popper's ideas have wider applications than is generally realised, esecially for skeptics who are concerned about the prevalence and durability of many anti-scientific prejudices. They provide a robust alternative to the mainstream philosophies of 'justified belief'. Bill Bartley explained this aspect of Popper's thought better than anyone, and this is explained on my site which is dedicated to Bartley and Hayek, as well as Popper.
Another particularly good expositor of Popper is Lawrence A Boland. His books and several of his best papers can be accessed in PDF format on his site http://www.sfu.ca/~boland. He was taught by Jo Agassi whose site is at http://www.tau.ac.il/~agass/joseph.html
As to personal details, I grew up in Tasmania, the island state of the island continent(Australia). There I studied agricultural science, moved to Adelaide where my teacher introduced me to The Open Society and its Enemies, then I moved on to other things.
Currently I am living in Sydney, sharing a house with an artist, some children, also two cats and a dog.
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Australia is experiencing an outbreak of History Wars. Over the last couple of decades it has become increasingly difficult to write history outside of a particular left/progressive mould without attracting abuse. This has produced a reaction from some challengers, such as Keith Windschuttle and others, who have called the progressives for serious bias or even outright falsification in their historical accounts. Stuart Macintyre is an outstandingly progressive historian who joined the Communist Party in the 1960s. He is also one of the most senior and influential academic historians in Australia so his example, for better or worse, is likely to exert a profound influence in the… Read more
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Peter Coleman wrote gIn June 1950, as the Cold War grew more intense in Europe and North Korea invaded South Korea, more than a hundred European and American writers and intellectuals met in Berlin and established the Congress for Cultural Freedom to resist the Kremlin's sustained assault on liberal democratic values. In the 1950s the Congress spread throughout the world, successfully creating magazines, organizing protests, establishing a network of affiliated national committees and fostering international contacts. The Congress continued into the 1960s, broadening its focus to lay the basis of an international community of liberal and democratic intellectuals. It was America's… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This book should put an end to the view that Popper's philosophy of science can usefully be summed up by the label "falsificationism", a view that has been perpetuated even by commentators as well informed and sympathetic as Alan Chalmers in What is this thing called Science? Popper expounded a critical method, with five forms of criticism. 1. The check on the problem. Does the theory solve the problem?
2. The check of logic. Is the theory internally consistent?
3. The check of consistency with other well-tested theories.
4. The check of evidence, falsifiability (if this is appropriate).
5. The check on the metaphysics. The focus in this book by Jarvie is… Read more
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