• #26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper

  • Feb 14 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper

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  • Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.

    Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.

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    Timestamps

    0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology

    14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism

    25:35 - The sociology of philosophy

    29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching

    36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU

    45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests

    52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art

    56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream

    1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism

    1:23:02 - Closing remarks

    If you are interested in Jeremy's Zoom based conferences on Karl Popper's work, you can contact him at: jeremy.shearmur@fallowfield.info



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