tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930280893880221735.post8312106694759350248..comments2023-09-11T10:45:13.580+03:00Comments on Anne is a man - Podcast Reviews: The Popperian PathwayAnne the Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01314860255666037414noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930280893880221735.post-275576318643727722008-01-02T09:52:00.000+02:002008-01-02T09:52:00.000+02:00Dear Rafe,First of all, thank you very much for yo...Dear Rafe,<BR/><BR/>First of all, thank you very much for your comments and for the links. I have taken up reading them carefully.<BR/><BR/>Second, I have to admit I was not aware of Popper's MPR's. I have studied Objective Knowledge, many many years ago, very closely, but apart from that, I was educated in the Logic of Science from secondary sources. In those sources it was taught, Lakatos and Kuhn had revealed Popper's theories as carrying a fundamental weakness in that they do not address the when and how of paradigm switch.<BR/><BR/>In other terms this could be called a conceptual revolution, which are the words Baum uses in the lecture i was commenting on. The way Baum presents it, after a couple of falsifications, the conceptual revolution 'happened', thus taking a apparently for granted. This is why I was reminded of what I was taught a near two decades ago.<BR/>Thanks for pointing out Popper has addressed the problem and I'll dig in to it as much as I can.<BR/><BR/>Thirdly, if you are interested in listening to more Popper related podcasts, I can recommend BBC's In Our Time that has delivered an issue on Popper not so long ago. It can be listened to <A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070208.shtml" REL="nofollow">on-line</A>. I am not sure whether it can be downloaded. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070208.shtmlAnne the Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01314860255666037414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930280893880221735.post-24580360041761288042008-01-02T00:11:00.000+02:002008-01-02T00:11:00.000+02:00For metaphysical research programshttp://www.the-r...For metaphysical research programs<BR/><BR/>http://www.the-rathouse.com/popmeta.html<BR/><BR/>Hoping comments are not rejected if they have multiple links in them!<BR/><BR/>An interesting and rather new perpective from Ian Jarvie, Popper's "social turn".<BR/><BR/>http://www.the-rathouse.com/rev_jarvie.html<BR/><BR/>The view from Peter Medawar, Nobel Prize winner in medicine and great friend of Popper.<BR/><BR/>http://www.the-rathouse.com/Medawar_PlutoRepublic.htmlRafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278597438041685633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930280893880221735.post-69203479198754086262008-01-02T00:06:00.000+02:002008-01-02T00:06:00.000+02:00Great post! Although it is not really a helpful cr...Great post! Although it is not really a helpful criticism of Popper to say that Lakatos and Kuhn had already shown the limitations of falsification, because Popper never attempted to do more with that part of his theory than demonstrate the logical incoherence of positivism.<BR/><BR/>As to working out where and how to move on from falfified theories, Lakatos and Kuhn are less helpful than Popper and it is a shame that critics have never paid much attention to his suggestions, possibly because he pointed out that logic and the philosophy of science don't really have answers to that question and should not be asked to provide them. <BR/><BR/>People have to have lots of problems and be passionate about wanting to solve them (to fall in love with them, as Popper suggested). They need to know the history and context of the problems, how other people have tried to solve them and where they went wrong. They need to have ideas and they also need to be critical of ideas, both their own and others. Lakatos and Kuhn in contrast tend to promote acceptance rather than criticism of frameworks and deep assumptions (paradigms and hard cores).<BR/><BR/>They need to become aware of unconscious limits that are being placed on the field of search by philosophical and metaphysical assumptions (that is, paradigms and hard cores) - see his theory of metaphysical research programs which was probably the inspiration for Lakatos on programs.<BR/><BR/>http://www.the-rathouse.com/poptheoryknow.htmlRafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278597438041685633noreply@blogger.com