2nd International (Zoom-based) Conference on The Work of Karl Popper (2021)
2nd International (Zoom-based) Conference on The Work of Karl Popper
Hosted by Jeremy Shearmur
25th Sept 2021
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So I attended (& presented at) this great Zoom-conference:
Program:
08.55AM: Welcome to the conference: Jeremy Shearmur
9.00-10.00
Popper and Scientific Institutions
Ulrich Pöschl: ‘Interactive Open Access Publishing and Multi-Stage Open Peer Review: Critical
Rationalism at Work in Scientific Publishing and Quality Assurance’
10.30-12.00
Popper and the Austrian School of Economics
Reinhard Neck, ‘Was Carl Menger a Precursor of Karl Popper?’
John Saudino: ‘Popper and Mises’
Jeremy Shearmur: ‘Popper and Hayek’
12.30-14.00
Epistemology 1
Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, ‘Three Myths About Popper’s Theory of Demarcation’
Manjari Chakrabarty, ‘Is Falsifiability a Blunt Instrument for Contemporary Physics’
J. T. Velikovsky, ‘What would Popper think of the new meta-Science of Evolutionary Culturology?’
14.30-15.30
Epistemology 2
Bill Berkson, ‘What does it mean to accept a scientific theory?’
Dmytro Sepetyi, ‘Popper’s Moderate Nonjustificationism’
16.00-17.00
Popper, Democracy, Ethics and the Humanities
Carlos Verdugo: ‘Popper and Democracy’
Michael Marquardt, ‘Conjectures and Reconstructions’
17.30-18.00
Truth
Peter Lugten, ‘Popper's Epistemology in Consideration of Two Different Theories of Truth’
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& some screenshots:
...& my particular Popper paper was on:
Re: P3 of EC (forthcoming book)
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Some links & information from the Zoom chat:
18:33:04 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Also, on the replication crisis, that Rafe just mentioned:
Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005). Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLOS Medicine, 2(8).
...&...
Ioannidis, J., Fanelli, D., Dunne, D., & Goodman, S. (2015). Meta-research: Evaluation and Improvement of Research Methods and Practices. PLOS Biology, 13(10).
18:36:30 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
& Rafe's Popper site: http://www.the-rathouse.com/
18:59:21 From Rafe Champion to Everyone:
The `my Popper' website: https://ourkarlpopper.net/
Michael Marquardt to Everyone:
Thank you, I will add those links to my website.
19:18:16 From Luc Castelein to Everyone:
The book of Wettersten [ The Roots of Critical Rationalism , 1992] that is otherwise very expensive, can be bought from google books at a very low price
Wettersten (1992)19:18:42 From Luc Castelein to Everyone: It can be read on a tablet with Google Play books..
19:25:14 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Most-cited books (2016)… https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/12/what-are-the-most-cited-publications-in-the-social-sciences-according-to-google-scholar/ ...I think we also need `negative' and `positive' citations?
19:22:56 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: To Jeremy's point, on other developments in the area of Ulrich's paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logology_(science)[though Metascience can mean 2 different things... `the Science of Science', and also, `a Science that spans all knowledge/disciplines/domains', like say Information Science, as knowledge is: information; or, Systems Science...]
See also: D K Simonton, at the MetaScience Symposium, 2019
19:55:40 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Rod, what was the title of that Weber article again? (i.e., with parallels to Popper's ideas...)
20:03:33 From Rod Thomas to Everyone:
Critical studies in the logic of the cultural sciences, In: Max Weber The Methodology of the Social Sciences trns. Ed Shils. The essay was first published in 1905. Thus, Weber as an intermediary between Menger and Popper.
20:03:56 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thanks!
20:27:37 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great paper & talk, John... One antidote to Mises/Ayn Rand/Individualism = D S Wilson's new novel `Atlas Hugged': https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2020/12/structured-abstract-book-review-atlas.html
20:29:25 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03249-7
20:30:17 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: (Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: reconstruing the apriori parts of theory as analytic)
20:35:58 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone: and in further shameless self-promotion: on Mises's ultra-thin notion of rationality: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0743-41542021000039B008/full/html
21:21:13 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Margaretha - great point on education...!! (as an aside, I prefer to call it `Social Spencerism' rather than `Social Darwinism'... sorry to be pedantic :) - but great point!
21:28:41 From Velikovsky of Newcastle: An interview i did with DSW: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/02/101-questions-about-atlas-hugged.html
21:27:13 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: https://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-American-Thought-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0807055034
21:29:48 From Sakban Rosidi to Everyone:
"I dreamt of one day founding a school in which young people could learn without boredom, and would be stimulated to pose problems and discuss them; a school in which no unwanted answers to unasked questions would have to be listened to; in which one did not study for the sake of passing examinations" (Popper 1976: 40).
21:37:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle:
3 of my blogs:
My Ph.D blog (StoryAlity): https://storyality.wordpress.com/
& my Transmedia Writing blog: https://on-writering.blogspot.com/
21:42:58 From Velikovsky of Newcastle :PHlash PHilosoPHiction (PH3) blog: https://outrageous-bullshit.blogspot.com/
There are (at least) 2 `Newcastles', (both, with universities...) - one in the UK, one in Australia... I am in Oz. ie : https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/storyality166-the-newcastle-school-of-creativity/
21:51:48 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great newsletter that Nate also works on: http://www.hpsst.com/
http://www.hpsst.com/22:04:24 From John Rock to Everyone: methodological nominalism explains the variance of vocabulary
22:26:16 From Michael Marquardt to Everyone: see also Peter Woit (2006). Not Even Wrong. The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics, London. At least this is where I first read about this phenomenon or problem.
22:29:32 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: David Deutsch...(I like his co-authored article: The Constructor Theory of Information , Deutsch & Marletto 2014)(It's an open access article... because: information, about information, wants to be free :)
22:30:26 From John Rock to Everyone: Dont want to take time for a question….but just to say it was an excellent presentation
22:51:36 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: The (forthcoming) book I just presented on: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/storyality170-p3-of-ec-book/& prior book chapters on it…(which are, more or less, reprints/reworkings/elaborations of the original 2016 book chapter):
Velikovsky, J. T. (02020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., pp. 585-604). San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier Science & Technology Books.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2019). The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In D. B. A. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 795-811). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. In IRMA (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications(pp. 1590-1627). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2017). Chapter 405: The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or, The Unit Of Culture. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 4666-4678). New York: IGI Global.
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016). The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts.In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). New York: IGI Global.
22:54:12 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone:
An argument in support of the rhetorical dimension of science against downward causation from a Three-World Hypothesis point of view: https://www.academia.edu/44947044/What_can_management_researchers_learn_from_Donald_Campbell_the_philosopher_An_exercise_on_philosophical_hermeneutics
JTV: My 3-min video on Upward & Downward Causation in HOLON/partons...
`Top-Down & Bottom-up causation in HOLON/partons' (3 mins 22 secs)
[JTV says: & sorry folks, re: "How to falsify, HOLON/parton Theory" - just realized - I must have - accidentally - said the word `Popper's' when I meant to say "Lakatos' Theory, of a hard core and a protective belt"... guess it was a `Freudian slip (it-in)'] ...e.g. see my blog post: On The StoryAlity Probability Calculus – and the Principle of Induction (2013) for more on Lakatos's hard cores/protective belts...
23:19:04 From Velikovsky of Newcastle : &... on the evolution of Csikszentmihalyi's systems model of creativity (1988-onwards) https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/storyality140-the-evolution-of-the-systems-model-of-creativity-csikszentmihalyi-1988/ (which, I suggest, is the same sociocultural evolutionary model as Popper and Kuhn...)
23:27:11 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
A quote from Three Worlds (Popper 1978, p 144):
"My main argument will be devoted to the defence of the reality of what I propose to call ‘world 3’. By world 3 I mean the world of the products of the human mind, such as languages; tales and stories and religious myths; scientific conjectures or theories, and mathematical constructions; songs and symphonies; paintings and sculptures. But also aeroplanes and airports and other feats of engineering. It would be easy to distinguish a number of different worlds within what I call world 3. We could distinguish the world of science from the world of fiction; and the world of music and the world of art from the world of engineering. For simplicity’s sake I shall speak about one world 3; that is, the world of the products of the human mind. Many of the objects belonging to world 3 belong at the same time also to the physical world 1. Michelangelo’s sculpture The Dying Slave is both a block of marble, belonging to the world 1 of physical objects, and a creation of Michelangelo’s mind, and as such belonging to world 3. The same holds of course for paintings." (Popper, 1978, p. 144, bold emphasis mine)23:32:46 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
...btw, Ev Cult 's solution to the world's ethical problems:
The EthiSizer - https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html
See: The EthiSizer
(...before it sees you)23:46:44 From Benesch, Philip to Everyone: Popper talks about applied social science - social technology in OSIE (Open Society and its Enemies) and Poverty of Historicism
23:51:09 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: btw, as I mentioned - Peter Turchin, the `real-life Hari Seldon' from Asimov's `Foundation' series: https://peterturchin.com/ (turning History into a Mathematical Science)...
See: Asimov's Foundation...
Foundation — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
(The EthiSizer is here to help with this kind of thing: prediction of, the consequences of future actions)
(...No, I'm not a Marxist :)
...I just like making: computer simulations :)
Also, maybe see Foundation in 5 minutes (SPOILER ALERTS!!!! YIKES)
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Explained In FIVE Minutes! (Some Spoilers)
(Yes; I know it's science fiction, but I agree with Harari - it gives us scientists, great ideas...)
(I've also been writing/publishing science fiction since I was 6, as I love Capital-S Science, so much :)
...& my first academic publication (2005) was in the discipline of Computer Science...
(If it somehow helps to understand me... Though, that's likely a fool's errand, even for me :)
00:04:42 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
FYI - The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab (AppEEL):
https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/home
...& monthly AppEEL Zoom-webinars: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/webinars (...all welcome!)
00:52:31 From Alexander Linsbichler to Everyone:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-3491-7_23 (Miller on Good Reasons)
01:11:45 From William Berkson to Everyone: This is the best book on political institutions I’ve seen since The Open Society. And it gives a much more complex and nuanced analysis than Popper did: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555400/the-narrow-corridor-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-a-robinson/ It’s the kind of in-depth institutional analysis that Popper started, but didn’t get far in.
01:15:34 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thanks Bill, looks good. A new documentary I worked on, out now (relevant to Carlos' talk & Popper's Open Society): `Better Left Unsaid':
Better Left Unsaid (Jaimungal 2021) - Trailer
(& my very biased review) https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2020/12/film-review-better-left-unsaid.html
01:42:09 From William Berkson to Everyone: FYI Bartley wrote interesting analysis of how to critique and develop ethics in his book Morality and Religion: https://www.amazon.com/Morality-Religion-New-Studies-Philosophy/dp/0333102770
01:56:33 From adamchmielewski to Everyone:
HANS ALBERT Treatise on Critical Reason TRANSLATED BY MARY VARNEY RORTY ψ Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey
01:56:50 From adamchmielewski to Everyone: Is this the book Reinhard meant?
01:59:21 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
Great paper Michael... also of course, there's Pinker's new book `Rationality': https://www.amazon.com.au/Rationality-What-Seems-Scarce-Matters/dp/0241380278 (Be interesting to see how much Popperism underpins that too...?)
02:04:39 From Benesch, Philip to Everyone:
Far from Hegelianism, there is no forward inevitability, Pinker recognizes we can "go back" as does Popper. Better Angels is free from most of the partisanship that you may find in his Enlightenment Now
02:04:57 From William Berkson to Everyone: Bartley shows in Morality and Religion that consequences and testing do play a role in ethics.
02:11:01 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Brilliant point Peter (re: Green, Haidt, etc) & an emerging (testable) Science of Ethics (see also The EthiSizer... I was talking about it last week at ICCC'21 )
02:15:39 From Reinhard Neck to Everyone: On Adam's question: The book I mean is Traktat über kritische Praxis. This is the applied-philosophy complement to the book you quote, Traktat über kritische Vernunft.
02:17:24 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: & more of the ALiPS quote (Popper 1999, p 100): "My main thesis is that not only are we doing better economically, we are also morally better. One thing I am willing to admit: that we are more stupid than ever before, and uncritical of whatever is thought of as modern. But that is never pleasant to hear, and will certainly not be believed."
02:18:09 From Peter Lugten to Everyone: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z2jdI7fBHonJmQpUzs4uOQz3uiCSc5s5f1OoX9FzlUM/edit?usp=sharing This link gives access to my slides
02:32:09 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Sakban, re "better" - my understanding is - like Pinker shows with all those tables / empirical evidence in `Enlightenment Now' (2018) - bad things like: crime, murder, disease, poverty, etc all decreases over time (& life expectancy increases, etc), thanks to Science
02:34:36 From William Berkson to Everyone: For Popper, theories are in World 3
02:36:07 From William Berkson to Everyone: We can become aware of them in World 2, of course. But the property of falsifiability would be in world 3, I believe
02:55:18 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
"...But the infinite sequence of natural numbers is, clearly, an abstract world 3 object; and it is an object that we can investigate, and about which we can make quite unexpected discoveries." (Popper 1978, Three Worlds p. 161)
...See also the great Creativity in Science (Simonton 2004)... ie on multiple independent scientific discovery & invention... & on whether, Maths is discovered or invented (...I currently think: discovered...? Seems logical, aliens would have the same Maths as us humanimals, if they are: alive)
03:01:04 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: 7.9 billions world IIs are in existence today.
03:02:18 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: Popper opens "the self and its brain" with a quote from Popper-Lynkaeus that each time that someone dies, an entire universe dies.
03:03:47 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: @Philip: Is it not the case that the idea itself does not have consequences. It is what people do with it that has consequences?
03:04:58 From Margaretha Hendrickx to Everyone: @Carlos: is it the issue of gestalt-switching that you are talking about?
03:07:25 From William Berkson to Everyone: Thank you Jeremy!
03:08:28 From Aaron Kenna to Everyone: Thank you, Jeremy, for organising the conference
03:08:31 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Thank you all, & especially Jeremy!
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...A terrific conference!
Thanks again to Jeremy, for such a great job, organizing and hosting.
Another one coming up soon, in: March 2022!
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