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May 29, 2024

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

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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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May 6, 2024

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

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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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April 28, 2024

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

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April 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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December 14, 2023

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

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December 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.

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October 28, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – ‘The Popper-Bartley Debate’

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October 28, 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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September 17, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’

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September 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.

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

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

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August 27, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’

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August 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)

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July 30, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #28 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘Our Fundamental Problem’

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July 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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June 11, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #27 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘The Structure of Problems’

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June 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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May 7, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #26 – Michael Munger – ‘The Calculus of Consent’

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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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March 26, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’

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March 26, 2023

This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Donald Gillies. They speak about Donald’s time at the London School of Economics, his personal and professional experiences with Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, the importance of an historical approach to philosophy, specifically how we should understand truth in medicine, and the history of medical discovery.

In 1966 Donald Gillies became a graduate student in Karl Popper’s department at LSE, doing a PhD with Imre Lakatos. Since then he has carried out research in the philosophy of science and mathematics broadly in the tradition of Popper, Lakatos and Kuhn, while being strongly influenced by Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. He focussed much of his research on the philosophy of probability, which, with the invention of Bayesian nets etc, extended into causality. And then went on to work on the philosophy of AI, the philosophy of medicine, and in the application of history and philosophy of science to questions of research assessment and organisation. He is currently retired as Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Mathematics at University College London.

*** Donald Gillies’ full biography and academic work can be found at: Donald A. Gillies – Personal Website (wordpress.com)

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February 12, 2023

The Popperian Podcast #24 – Nimrod Bar-Am – ‘The Life and Philosophy of Joseph Agassi’

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February 12, 2023

This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nimrod Bar-Am. They speak about the life of the philosopher Joseph Agassi (1927-2023), where his work continued from and diverged from that of Karl Popper, Agassi’s historiography of Science, the important and central role that Agassi gave to metaphysics in understanding scientific development, how ethics should be understood as a direct implication of individual autonomy and critical rationalism, and how critical rationalism can help us to make sense of various issues such as mental illness and nationalism.

Nimrod Bar-Am is a senior lecturer of logic and rhetoric at the Communication department of Sapir academic college, Israel. He is the author of In Search of the Simple Introduction to Communication (Springer 2016), and of Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic (Springer 2008), as well as various papers on the history of logic and the philosophy of communication.

*** Nimrod Bar-Am’s resume and publications can be found at: Nimrod Bar-Am | Sapir Academic College - Academia.edu

*** Nimrod Bar-Am’s books can be found at: Books by Nimrod Bar Am | Book Depository

*** Joseph Agassi’s resume and publications can be found at: Prof. Joseph Agassi (tau.ac.il)

*** Joseph Agassi’s books can be found at: Books by Joseph Agassi | Book Depository

*** The Popperian Podcast #18 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Karl Popper’s Hopeful Monsters’ The Popperian Podcast: The Popperian Podcast #18 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Karl Popper’s Hopeful Monsters’ (libsyn.com)

*** The Popperian Podcast #19 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Rules of the Game’ The Popperian Podcast: The Popperian Podcast #19 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Rules of the Game’ (libsyn.com)

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December 4, 2022

The Popperian Podcast #23 – Paul Levinson – ‘W.W. Bartley and Pancritical Rationalism’

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December 4, 2022

This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Paul Levinson. They speak about the philosophy of W.W. Bartley, the history of comprehensive rationalism, Karl Popper’s critical rationalism, why Bartley thought that all such theories were inadequate and unnecessarily opened the door for irrationalism, and how Bartley’s own theory of pancritical rationalism corrected these errors.

Paul Levinson is an American author, singer-songwriter, and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. His novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into sixteen languages. He is frequently quoted in news articles and appears as a guest commentator on major news outlets. He is also a songwriter, singer, and record producer.

*** Amazon.com: Paul Levinson: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

*** In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday: Levinson, Paul: 9780391026094: Amazon.com: Books

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November 13, 2022

The Popperian Podcast #22 – Elyse Hargreaves – ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies, and Happiness’

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November 13, 2022

This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Elyse Hargreaves. They speak about chapter 10 of Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies, the nature and often well-meaning origins of totalitarianism, the fall of Athens to Sparta, the betrayal of Socrates and Athenian democracy by Plato and the oligarchical class, and the one factor that Popper had neglected until then in his analysis – happiness, specifically the tyrannical dangers of trying to make people happy.

Elyse Hargreaves is an ardent student of Popper, passionate about advancing the cause of the open society; for freedom, rationality and humanitarianism. Upon finding Popper in her early 20’s, she has since been determined to popularise his ideas in whatever medium she can. Since then, she has released a free audiobook version of Popper’s Conjectures and Refutations on YouTube which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUn6tOI13ZF4iEhzYM0Dvg and has recently released an audiobook version of Rafe Champion’s Guide to the Open Society and Its Enemies which you can find on Audible here: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Guide-to-the-Open-Society-and-Its-Enemies-Audiobook/B0BF2MZ4FJ?qid=

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