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The Popperian Podcast #41 – ‘The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley – Pancritical Rationalism, Ch 5, Part 2’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – RSS - *** Underlying artwork by Arturo Espinosa

The Popperian Podcast #40 – ‘The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley – Pancritical Rationalism, Ch 5, Part 1’

The Popperian Podcast

This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – RSS - *** Underlying artwork by Arturo Espinosa

The Popperian Podcast #39 – ‘The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley - Chapters 3 and 4’

The Popperian Podcast

This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – RSS - *** Underlying artwork by Arturo Espinosa

The Popperian Podcast #38 – ‘The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley - Chapters 1 and 2’

The Popperian Podcast

This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – RSS - *** Underlying artwork by Arturo Espinosa

The Popperian Podcast #37 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about Jagdish’s new book Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge. and Jagdish Hattiangadi is a Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto. *** Jagdish Hattiangadi’s academic profiles: and and Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – RSS - *** Underlying artwork by Arturo Espinosa

The Popperian Podcast #36 – James Kierstead – ‘Education for Science and Democracy’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. They speak about James’ most recent article ‘Education for science and democracy’ (), as well as falsification as a criterion of empirical science, how universal statements are falsifiable but existential ones aren't, how Popper later moved away from this strictly logical idea to place more emphasis on degrees of falsifiability and on fallibilism as an attitude or social practice, and the challenges of institutionalising these ideas within science, society and curricula....

The Popperian Podcast #35 – David Edmonds – ‘Murder in the Vienna Circle’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David’s book The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle David Edmonds is a multi-award winning presenter/producer at the BBC and the host of He is the author of many books, including and (with John Eidinow) the international best-seller . His latest book (co-written with Hugh Fraser), is a children’s book He’s a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s and a columnist for...

The Popperian Podcast #34 – Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin – ‘Karl Popper’s Changing Assessment of Evolutionary Theory’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin. They speak about Karl Popper’s analysis of evolutionary theory, how it changed over time, what he saw in the theory which made it less than scientific, and what he got wrong. Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin—Madison. Mehmet Elgin is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla – Turkey. *** Popper’s Shifting...

The Popperian Podcast #33 – Flavio Del Santo – ‘Karl Popper and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Flavio Del Santo. They speak about Karl Popper’s changing theories about, and proposed experiments for, understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics, from his earliest publications and up until his death. Flavio Del Santo is Schrödinger Fellow at the University of Geneva, the Group of Applied Physics; Faculty at Constructor University in Geneva; and Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna. Flavio works on the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum communication, history of...

The Popperian Podcast #32 – Seamus O’Mahony – ‘Freud and Psychoanalysis - The Story of Science, Pseudoscience and Sex’

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Seamus O’Mahony. They speak about Seamus’s new book ‘The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis’ concerning the intertwined lives of Sigmund Freud, fellow psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, and the surgeon Wilfred Trotter. Seamus O’Mahony is a doctor and prize-winning author. He worked for many years in the NHS, returning to his native city of Cork in 2001, where he was a gastroenterologist and clinical professor until February 2020. His first book won...

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