Bruce and I have an ongoing discussion about our differing interpretation of Donald Campbell’s notion of “blindness”. Bruce has previously published a post explaining his…
Neo-Darwinism, the theory of the “selfish gene,” uncovered the basic principle of evolution, that change in living things happens through blind variation and selective retention.…
In the last episode, we gave you the basic theory. Now we’re going to show you how Computational Theory is actually used in real life.…
In the Critical Rationalist group on Facebook there is an interesting discussion about Popper’s claims that faith in reason were not themselves rational. Here is…
The following letter was originally sent out to my mailing list and published here.
In a past post, I demonstrated how Word Essentialism arguments are always incorrect. In this post, I anticipate some possible objections to my argument and…
Computational Theory is possibly the most underrated of all scientific theories. In fact, most scientists think of it as a branch of mathematics rather than…
Does the phrase “I’m certain” or the question “How can we be certain?” suggest to you that the person talking needs a lesson in Popperian…
Another good Popper Quote I wanted to capture: …do we always have the feeling of complete assurance or certainty of its truth, even with respect…
In a previous post A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation I described how libertarians understood the concept of “original appropriation” and ended up both criticizing…