http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/ Critical Rationalism Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:18:17 GMT Rafe Champion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13502 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13502 A nice biographical sketch has been put on the Bartley website. http://www.bartleyinstitute.org/node/6 You can also find a fragment of Popper biography, the Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:05:33 GMT Jeff Rulifson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13501 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13501 Elliot: Thank you. This is much more clear than Wikipedia on Neo-darwinism. Jeff http://jeff.rulifson.name +1 (650) 924-2758 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:22:24 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13500 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13500 ... JE:- Hi Elliot, Dawkins is the University Of Oxfords official communicator for the Neo Darwinian model (not the Darwinian Theory which he misrepresents as Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:21:48 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13499 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13499 WNYC Radio Lab Podcast "In Defense Of Darwinism? (available as a free podcast on Itunes) Dawkins opened: "As an academic scientist I am a passionate Darwinian Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:02:20 GMT Elliot Temple http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13498 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13498 ... Nah. You're mixing up neo-darwinists with atheists (as Dawkins also does). When Dawkins goes on TV to argue with O'Reilly, he's not a serious Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:35:53 GMT Matt Dioguardi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13497 ... Okay, but this would move the argument away from the idea and towards those advocating it. That is, this suggest people are either immoral *or* that the Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:50:32 GMT Rafe Champion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13496 "Presumably the people involved didn't know that it wouldn't work until they tried to make it fly. Also, it strikes me that Popper's 'Logic of Scientific Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:49:48 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13495 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13495 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECE77Imki9M&feature=topvideos Dawkins continues to make millions out of the silliest show on earth.. Note that the key word Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:48:28 GMT Matt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13494 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13494 ... I can't off the top of my head think of any reason for disagreeing with this. ... I'm not sure about the second part of this answer, just speculating, Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:38:33 GMT Alan Forrester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13493 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13493 ... Presumably the people involved didn't know that it wouldn't work until they tried to make it fly. Also, it strikes me that Popper's 'Logic of Scientific Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:38:06 GMT Rafe Champion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13492 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13492 Toby Huff in Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Scienes (Transaction Books, 1984) suggested that the philosophy of science that Weber was reading read Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:04:44 GMT leekelly7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13491 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13491 This line occurred to me a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it neatly captured the CR philosophy: "A criticism that can be brought against everything ought Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:03:28 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13490 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13490 Do we want to remain well or should we allow ourselves to get sick because of increasingly poor life styles and then _unreasonably_ ask to be cured no matter Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:09:56 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13489 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13489 ... JE:- Yes, but it doesn't. Note that this was only manifest via predictions which were here-to-for not even thought of. IOW, only the massive increase in Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:09:52 GMT John Edser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13488 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CriticalRationalism/message/13488 ... JE:- Aaron, No "end" (or even a start) can be defined using mathematics. Both have to be defined _outside_ of mathematics and subsequently imported into