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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…

Popper on Why Explanation Seems Improbable
Critical Rationalism

Popper on Why Explanation Seems Improbable

Posted on November 23, 2021August 22, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Popper did not believe we could explain the success of our attempt to explain things. He said: …no theory of knowledge should attempt to explain…

Popper on Incommensurability
Critical Rationalism

Popper on Incommensurability

Posted on October 7, 2021September 5, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I came across the following quote where Popper describes theories that aren’t comparable, which seems to be the same concept of Kuhn’s “incommensurability.” In general…

A Diagram of Universal Darwinism
Artifical General Intelligence

A Diagram of Universal Darwinism

Posted on August 3, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…

Theory of Anything 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge?
Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Anything 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge?

Posted on July 13, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…

Theory of Anything 25: Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?
Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Anything 25: Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?

Posted on June 29, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…

Popper on “the Fun Criteria”
Critical Rationalism

Popper on “the Fun Criteria”

Posted on February 15, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I came across this quote and thought people might enjoy it’s relationship to the recently much discussed “fun criteria.” Thus the pure theoretician… will choose…

The Critical Rationalist Translation Guide
Critical Rationalism

The Critical Rationalist Translation Guide

Posted on February 4, 2021March 30, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In past posts, I’ve been building my argument around why Word Essentialism is always a rational mistake under Popperian epistemology. Popper himself explained this. I…

The Myth of the Framework Introduction: What’s Your Philosophy?
Critical Rationalism

The Myth of the Framework Introduction: What’s Your Philosophy?

Posted on February 1, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

This is a historical post. In this post I was struggling to make sense of Popper. Agellius (a devout Catholic friend of mine) once asked…

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