In my last post, I went over Popper’s own argument for why an asymmetry between refutation and verification exists. To summarize Popper’s view: Universal statements…
Category: Critical Rationalism
In my last post, I discussed various problems (or rather pseudo-problems) with Popper’s epistemology around his concept of refutation/falsification. (For our purposes, we will treat…
Though I’ve always agreed with Popper-Deutsch epistemology conceptually, I’ve always been bothered by some aspects of how it seemed to handled refutations. Particularly, I’ve struggled…
In the next few posts, I’m going to address what I call the ‘problem of refutation.’ I’ve hinted at this problem in past posts, particularly…
I previously wrote about how the rational fallacies differ from the logical fallacies and how rational fallacies are far more important and more common than…
This is a short one. Popper said that we must: …[be] consciously critical of [our] theories which, for this reason, [we should try] to formulate…
In episode 38, Karl Popper has a radical theory of ‘dualistic evolution’ where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken…
Reading Popper, I’m often surprised how many of Deutsch’s ideas are really ideas from Popper. Here is one on objective beauty. To me, idealism appears…
A while back I had a long Facebook conversation with Danny Frederick, a well-known scholar of Popper. We kept talking past each other, so I…
How intelligent are animals? In this episode, we introduce our series on animal intelligence rooted primarily in the research of Richard Byrne. Richard Byrne (mentioned…