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  • The Popperian Podcast #36 – James Kierstead – ‘Education for Science and Democracy’
    Jun 24 2024

    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’ (https://www.elgaronline.com/downloadpdf/edcollchap/book/9781802208542/book-part-9781802208542-7.pdf), 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.

    James Kierstead is a Research Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. Together with Michael Johnston he co-hosts Free Kiwis!, a podcast dedicated to issues to do with freedom and free speech in a New Zealand context. He tweets @Kleisthenes2

    *** Education for science and democracy https://www.elgaronline.com/downloadpdf/edcollchap/book/9781802208542/book-part-9781802208542-7.pdf

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  • The Popperian Podcast #35 – David Edmonds – ‘Murder in the Vienna Circle’
    May 29 2024

    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 Amazon.com: The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle: 9780691164908: Edmonds, David: Books

    David Edmonds is a multi-award winning presenter/producer at the BBC and the host of The Big Idea. He is the author of many books, including Would You Kill the Fat Man? and (with John Eidinow) the international best-seller Wittgenstein’s Poker. His latest book (co-written with Hugh Fraser), is a children’s book Undercover Robot. He’s a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle. With Nigel Warburton he produces the popular podcast series Philosophy Bites which has had over 40 million downloads. He also runs Philososphy247 and presents Social Science Bites.

    *** The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle Amazon.com: The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle: 9780691164908: Edmonds, David: Books

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  • The Popperian Podcast #34 – Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin – ‘Karl Popper’s Changing Assessment of Evolutionary Theory’
    May 6 2024

    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 Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory (PDF) Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory (researchgate.net)

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  • The Popperian Podcast #33 – Flavio Del Santo – ‘Karl Popper and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’
    Apr 28 2024

    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 modern physics; fundamental differences between quantum and classical physics; interpretations of quantum mechanics; and the social and historical development of modern science.

    *** Beyond Method: The Diatribe Between Feyerabend and Popper Over the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (9) (PDF) Beyond Method: The Diatribe Between Feyerabend and Popper Over the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (researchgate.net)

    *** Karl Popper's forgotten role in the quantum debate at the edge between philosophy and physics in 1950s and 1960s Karl Popper's forgotten role in the quantum debate at the edge between philosophy and physics in 1950s and 1960s | Request PDF (researchgate.net)

    *** Genesis of Karl Popper's EPR-Like Experiment and its Resonance amongst the Physics Community in the 1980s (PDF) Genesis of Karl Popper's EPR-Like Experiment and its Resonance amongst the Physics Community in the 1980s (researchgate.net)

    *** The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics (9) (PDF) The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics (researchgate.net)

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  • The Popperian Podcast #32 – Seamus O’Mahony – ‘Freud and Psychoanalysis - The Story of Science, Pseudoscience and Sex’
    Dec 14 2023

    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. Amazon.com: The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis (Audible Audio Edition): Seamus O'Mahony, Seamus O'Mahony, W. F. Howes Ltd: Books

    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 The Way We Die Now won the British Medical Association’s council chair’s choice award in 2017. His second book Can Medicine be Cured? was published in 2019, and his book The Ministry of Bodies was published by Head of Zeus in March 2021. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books and the Medical Independent. He has written also for the Observer, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Saturday Evening Post. He is a member of the Lancet commission on “The Value of Death” and is visiting professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London.

    *** Home - Seamus O'Mahony (seamusomahony.com)

     

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  • The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – ‘The Popper-Bartley Debate’
    Oct 27 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Dmytro Sepetyi. They speak about the debate between Karl Popper and his former student William Bartley over the irrationalism and fideism that Bartley saw within critical rationalism, and his attempt to improve upon it in the form of pancritical rationalism.

    Dmytro Sepetyi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Studies at Zaporizhzhia State Medical University (Ukraine).

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  • The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’
    Sep 17 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jamie Shaw. They speak about the life, the work, and the specifically epistemological anarchism of Paul Feyerabend.

    Jamie Shaw is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz University. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario for his dissertation ‘A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend’s Well-Ordered Science’, and he is the editor of ‘Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Papers’. Cambridge University Press.

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  • The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’
    Aug 27 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Rafe Champion. They speak about the life and work of Jacques Barzun.

    Rafe Champion grew up on a dairy farm in the far northwest of Tasmania and studied Agricultural Science at the University of Tasmania followed by post-graduate research in Adelaide. He moved into the social sciences in Sydney but did not achieve an academic career and spent most of his professional career in policy, planning and research on health and welfare issues. His main interest after he encountered Popper’s ideas on critical rationalism, objective knowledge & etc. was to explore and explain their implications and applications. His first wife (Kilmeny Niland 1950-2009) was a talented and versatile artist and she created the beautiful Rathouse website to provide a platform for Rafe’s interpretation of the work of Popper, Bartley III, Hayek and others including the great psychologists Karl Buhler and Ian D. Suttie.

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    *** The Popperian Podcast #17 – Rafe Champion – ‘Karl Popper’s Social Turn’

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