• 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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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • 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).

    *** Dmytro Sepetyi’s Personal Page geocities.ws/sepety/

     

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 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.

    *** Home – Jamie Shaw (wordpress.com)

    *** Amazon.com: Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays: 9781108471992: Bschir, Karim, Shaw, Jamie: Books

     

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • 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.

    *** The Rat House - Karl Popper, Hayek, and Mises' philosophies.Insights by Rafe Champion. (the-rathouse.com)

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

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • The Popperian Podcast #28 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘Our Fundamental Problem’
    Jul 30 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nicholas Maxwell. They speak about Maxwell’s agreements and disagreements with Popper, the metaphysical assumption that there is a unity of knowledge and the preference within science for unified theories, Maxwell’s theory of Aim-Oriented Empiricism, and importantly how this ought to be extended to the social sciences and the big questions of human flourishing.

    Nicholas Maxwell is an emeritus reader in philosophy of science at University College London, where he previous taught philosophy of science for nearly thirty years. He is the author of What’s Wrong With Science? (Bran's Head Books, 1976), From Knowledge to Wisdom (Blackwell, 1984), The Comprehensibility of the Universe (OUP, 1998), Is Science Neurotic? (World Scientific, 2004), Cutting God in Half – And Putting the Pieces Together Again: A New Approach to Philosophy (2010), How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World: The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution (Imprint Academic, 2014), Global Philosophy (2014), In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017), Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism (Paragon House, 2017), Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment (UCL Press, 2017), Science and Enlightenment: Two Great Problems of Learning (Springer, 2019), The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism: A Revolution for Science and Philosophy (Synthese Library, Springer, 2019), Our Fundamental Problem: A Revolutionary Approach to Philosophy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), The World Crisis - And What To Do About It (World Scientific, Spring 2021) (all available at: https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Maxwell/e/B001HPF2LO/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

    *** Nicholas Maxwell’s academic profile (About Me | From Knowledge to Wisdom - UCL – University College London).

    *** The Popperian Podcast #3 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘More Popperian than Popper’ The Popperian Podcast: The Popperian Podcast #3 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘More Popperian than Popper’ (libsyn.com)

    *** Philosophy Seminars for Five-Year Olds Nicholas Maxwell, Philosophy Seminars for Five-Year-Olds, - PhilArchive

     

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  • The Popperian Podcast #27 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘The Structure of Problems’
    Jun 11 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about the importance of the discovery of problems for science, philosophy, progress and for the growth of all knowledge, the relationship between problems and questions, the logical structure of problems, the need to understand their historiography, and just what it means to solve a problem, and how it is that solutions constitute knowledge.

    Jagdish Hattiangadi is a Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto.

    *** The Structure of Problems, (Part I) The Structure of Problems, (Part I) - J.N. Hattiangadi, 1978 (sagepub.com)

    *** The Structure of Problems, Part II The Structure of Problems, Part II - J.N. Hattiangadi, 1979 (sagepub.com)

    *** Jagdish Hattiangadi’s academic profiles: Jagdish Hattiangadi (yorku.ca) and Jagdish Hattiangadi - Academia.edu

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • The Popperian Podcast #26 – Michael Munger – ‘The Calculus of Consent’
    May 7 2023

    This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Michael Munger. They speak about James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock‘s book The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, and how it is that rational individuals agree to be coerced by consenting to the rules which define their political system.

    Michael Munger is a professor of economics and political science, and former department chair of political science, at Duke University. His research interests include the study of ideology, legislative institutions, elections, and public policy, especially campaign finance. Michael received his PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984, and authored, co-authored and coedited multiple books. These can be found, along with Michael’s other works, at: Michael C. Munger - Professor at Duke University (michaelmunger.com)

    *** Special Interest Groups - Public Choice Theory - Michael Munger Special Interest Groups - Public Choice Theory - Michael Munger - YouTube

    *** The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy Amazon.com: The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan): 9780865972186: Buchanan, James M., Tullock, Gordon: Books

     

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    1 hr and 17 mins