The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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A summary of the first three essays in Karl Popper's collection Conjectures and Refutations, read by Dylan Casey. We recommend listening to this before the full episode.
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Good; Popper was an important thinker; apparently he was a bit of a snake personally.
Make sure the caricature has massive ears like those ferangi on star trek.
Looking forward to this.
I think ‘Conjectures and Refutations’ is an important work of his. I would also recommend, in preperation, chapter 23 of The Open Society, where he outlines his core philosophy.
PS. Who does the art work?
I found this interesting bit in Diogene Laerce, more precisely in Epicure’s life (and yes, since it’s the last one it means I’ve laboured my way through the two books – so I need to quote something, even if it is beside the point):
“Of opinion, they also call it hypothesis. They say it can be either true or false. It is true if confirmed by facts or if nothing comes to invalidate the hypothesis – in the other case it is false. The fact is it lies in the future and begs for us to wait for it, just as one should uphold judgment and wait [for the confirmation of the interpretation of the data of one’s senses*]…”
* he refers to a square tower that looks round until one gets close enough to discern its real shape.