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Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
Season 1 Episode 69
This week we have criminologist Brian Boutwell on again for part 2 of our discussion on critical rationalism and social science. Does all science sha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 68: Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper"
Season 1 Episode 68
Bruce Caldwell (a scholar interested in Popper and Hayek) wrote a long paper in the Journal of Economic Literature (March 1991) called 'Clarifying Po…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 67: Disagreements with Deutsch
Season 1 Episode 67
Though our guest Mark Biros is clearly immersed in critical rationalism and the worldview of Popper and Deutsch, he also has some fairly strong criti…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 66: The Alien Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and the Search For Meaning
Season 1 Episode 66
Historian Matt Bowman discusses his new book, The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America. Bet…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
Season 1 Episode 65
What did David Deutsch get right and wrong in chapter 11, “Time: The First Quantum Concept,” from his first book, Fabric of Reality? Is the flow of t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 64: What is a "Refutation"?
Season 1 Episode 64
What did Karl Popper really mean by refutation? How are empirical theories special? How do objective criticisms differ from subjective criticisms? Wh…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
Season 1 Episode 63
Brian Boutwell is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Mississippi who specializes in “quantitative genetics, with a focus on environ…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 62: Aliens!?!?
Season 1 Episode 62
Is the government hiding a secret UFO recovery program? What should the critical rationalist attitude be towards these kinds of claims? Why exactly w…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
Season 1 Episode 61
What did Popper say about corroboration in science? Can a theory NEVER be supported with evidence in any sense at all? Is the Popperian “war on words…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 60: Learning, Work, and Art in the Age of ChatGPT
We interview Bruce’s nephew, Brendon Nielson, who is a well-known electronic music artist under the name Dvddy. We discuss how he uses AI as a tool t…
2 years, 10 months ago