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Do Deutsch and Popper Disagree Over Refutation?
Critical Rationalism

Do Deutsch and Popper Disagree Over Refutation?

Posted on February 17, 2022February 10, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Popper Explains The Asymmetry Between Refutation and Verification
Critical Rationalism

Popper Explains The Asymmetry Between Refutation and Verification

Posted on February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

The Problems of Refutation
Critical Rationalism

The Problems of Refutation

Posted on February 8, 2022March 11, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Deutsch’s Epistemology
Critical Rationalism

Deutsch’s Epistemology

Posted on February 1, 2022January 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
Artificial Intelligence

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)

Posted on January 25, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In episode 39, Richard Byrne has spent his whole career trying to determine when animals learned to ‘think.’ We discuss Richard Byrne’s methodology for determining…

Things That are Usually NOT Rational Fallacies
Critical Rationalism

Things That are Usually NOT Rational Fallacies

Posted on January 18, 2022January 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Formulate Your Theories Sharply!
Critical Rationalism

Formulate Your Theories Sharply!

Posted on January 11, 2022December 20, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)
Artifical General Intelligence

Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)

Posted on January 4, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Popper on Freedom vs the State
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Popper on Freedom vs the State

Posted on December 28, 2021December 20, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

We need freedom to prevent the state from abusing its power, and we need the state to prevent the abuse of freedom. Clearly this is…

Popper on Objective Beauty
The Arts

Popper on Objective Beauty

Posted on December 21, 2021August 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

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