Best Paul and Elgin Podcasts (2024)

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The Popperian Podcast #36 – James Kierstead – ‘Education for Science and Democracy’ 1:13:16

10d ago1:13:16

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. They speak about James’ most recent article ‘Education for science and democracy’ (https://www.elgaronline.com/downloadpdf/edcollchap/book/9781802208542/book-part-9781802208542-7.pdf), as well as falsification as a criterion of empirical s…

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The Popperian Podcast #35 – David Edmonds – ‘Murder in the Vienna Circle’ 59:57

1M ago59:57

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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 …

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The Popperian Podcast #34 – Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin – ‘Karl Popper’s Changing Assessment of Evolutionary Theory’ 1:13:49

2M ago1:13:49

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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 W…

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The Popperian Podcast #33 – Flavio Del Santo – ‘Karl Popper and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’ 1:15:35

2M ago1:15:35

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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…

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The Popperian Podcast #32 – Seamus O’Mahony – ‘Freud and Psychoanalysis - The Story of Science, Pseudoscience and Sex’ 1:21:30

7M ago1:21:30

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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. Am…

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A General Note. 5:31

7M ago5:31

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This is a General Note to all listeners of Christ our All and In All. In the note, we acknowledge a few points and convey our heartfelt gratitude for the support shown to the program. Lastly, it is important to note that we will indeed be continuing with the Study of The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians. --- Support this podcast: https://podcaste…

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The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – ‘The Popper-Bartley Debate’ 1:08:25

8M ago1:08:25

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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 rationalis…

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The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’ 1:23:21

10M ago1:23:21

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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…

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The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’ 1:16:43

11M ago1:16:43

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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 mo…

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The Popperian Podcast #28 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘Our Fundamental Problem’ 2:04:49

11M ago2:04:49

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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 i…

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The Popperian Podcast #27 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘The Structure of Problems’ 1:26:25

1y ago1:26:25

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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 underst…

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The Popperian Podcast #26 – Michael Munger – ‘The Calculus of Consent’ 1:17:07

1y ago1:17:07

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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 po…

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The Epistle of Paul To The Philippians: An Introduction. 22:48

1y ago22:48

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This is an introduction to a new series, on the study of The Epistle of Paul To The Philippians. In this study, we will exposit each chapter and verse, to reveal the message that God has for us in Christ Jesus, and how it can be applied to our lives. From this introduction, we will look at where the city of Philippi was, who the Philippians were, a…

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The Study of The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians. A trailer! 0:41

1y ago0:41

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Reading From Philippians 3:7-8. Where the Paul reveals the excellency of Christ, compared to the relative, perishable things of the world. These, he says, are nothing, they are refuse, on account of Christ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’ 1:29:21

1+ y ago1:29:21

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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 shou…

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The Popperian Podcast #24 – Nimrod Bar-Am – ‘The Life and Philosophy of Joseph Agassi’ 1:25:52

1+ y ago1:25:52

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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 i…

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The Popperian Podcast #23 – Paul Levinson – ‘W.W. Bartley and Pancritical Rationalism’ 1:40:07

1+ y ago1:40:07

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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, an…

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The Popperian Podcast #22 – Elyse Hargreaves – ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies, and Happiness’ 1:24:30

1+ y ago1:24:30

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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 ol…

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The Popperian Podcast #21 – James Kierstead – ‘The Paradox of Tolerance’ 1:04:43

2y ago1:04:43

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. From The Open Society and Its Enemies, later essays, and private letters, they speak about the meaning behind Karl Popper’s ‘paradox of tolerance’: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited to…

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The Popperian Podcast #20 – Susan Blackmore – ‘Memes - Rational, Irrational, Anti-Rational’ 1:06:44

2y ago1:06:44

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Susan Blackmore. They speak about her book The Meme Machine, and David Deutsch’s anti-rational meme hypothesis from his book The Beginning of Infinity. Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous e…

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The Popperian Podcast #19 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Rules of the Game’ 1:45:49

2y ago1:45:49

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joseph Agassi. They speak about the place for argument and debate, how criticism should and should not look, why so much of this energy is futile and why we have such high hopes for debate/argument/criticism regardless, as well as wonderful asides such as …

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The Popperian Podcast #18 – Joseph Agassi – ‘Karl Popper’s Hopeful Monsters’ 1:28:42

2y ago1:28:42

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joseph Agassi. They speak about Joseph’s background as a student of Karl Popper, his life and his philosophy, his interactions with people such as Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, John Watkins, and Thomas Kuhn, and most importantly Joseph’s criticisms of var…

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The Popperian Podcast #17 – Rafe Champion – ‘Karl Popper’s Social Turn’ 1:29:56

2y ago1:29:56

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Rafe Champion. They speak about the social (institutional) theme within Karl Popper’s philosophy of science as well as his approach to politics. Popper argued that objectivity in science does not come from the impartiality of scientists, but rather from th…

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The Popperian Podcast #16 – Michael Ignatieff – ‘Finding Consolation in Truth’ 1:03:20

2+ y ago1:03:20

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Michael Ignatieff. They speak about Michael’s new book On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times, and the important role that truth plays in consolation. Between 2006 and 2011, Michael Ignatieff served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Le…

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The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’ 1:37:40

2+ y ago1:37:40

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about the induction of Francis Bacon, why Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn rejected it, how this rejection was based on a misunderstanding/misreading of Bacon, and importantly how this rejection of induction opened a space for “t…

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The Popperian Podcast #14 – Anthony O'Hear – ‘Whiffs of Induction’ 1:36:07

2+ y ago1:36:07

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Anthony O'Hear. They speak about Anthony’s book ‘Karl Popper: The Arguments of the Philosophers’, and its central claim that: “Popper’s attempt to dispense with induction is unsuccessful. We have found that inductive reasoning, removed from one part of the…

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The Popperian Podcast #13 – Ken Gemes – ‘Karl Popper vs. Friedrich Nietzsche’ 1:39:30

2+ y ago1:39:30

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Ken Gemes. They speak about the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, how that philosophy intersects and diverges with the philosophy of Karl Popper, what both men got right and what they got wrong, how the philosophies and legacies of both men will continue …

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The Popperian Podcast #12 – Jonathan Rauch – ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’ 1:25:03

3y ago1:25:03

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jonathan Rauch. They speak about Jonathan’s books Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought and The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, the Popperian influence within them both, where (and how) the message of Karl Popper remains resona…

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The Popperian Podcast #11 – David Edmonds – ‘Wittgenstein's Poker’ 1:05:55

3y ago1:05:55

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David’s book Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. Blurb: “On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Witt…

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The Popperian Podcast #10 – Richard Landes – ‘Deutsch's Theory of the Pattern - The Widespread Compulsion to Legitimise Hurting Jews’ 1:23:00

3y ago1:23:00

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Richard Landes. They speak about the history of antisemitism, its unique characteristics and intensity throughout centuries and millennia, the strange ability of ordinary people to uncritically accept nearly any claim against the Jews (no matter how farfet…

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The Popperian Podcast #9 – Jeremy Shearmur – ‘Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and the Future of Liberalism’ 1:46:03

3y ago1:46:03

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jeremy Shearmur. They speak about the time that Jeremy spent working with Karl Popper at the London School of Economics, the seeds of classical liberalism within Popper’s epistemology, the role for free markets as constant feedback mechanisms for the conse…

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The Popperian Podcast #8 – James Kierstead – ‘New Zealand and the Authoritarianism of Plato’ 1:16:35

3y ago1:16:35

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. They speak about Karl Popper’s work The Open Society and Its Enemies, the years that Popper spent in New Zealand writing this book, what Popper thought about his adopted country, Popper’s attack on Plato for his “unmitigated authoritariani…

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The Popperian Podcast #7 – Oseni Taiwo Afisi – ‘Karl Popper and Africa’ 1:28:57

3y ago1:28:57

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Oseni Taiwo Afisi. They speak about Karl Popper’s book The Open Society and Its Enemies, the ideas and history behind the work, the place for the Open Society and Popper’s epistemology within the African context, how the communalism and collectivism in tra…

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The Popperian Podcast #6 – Steve Fuller – ‘Karl Popper vs. Thomas Kuhn’ 1:34:49

3y ago1:34:49

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Steve Fuller. They speak about Steve’s book Kuhn Vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, how Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn each regarded the scientific method, the differences between these two conceptions, the significance of the arguments involve…

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The Popperian Podcast #5 – Maarten Boudry – ‘Diagnosing Pseudoscience - Why the Demarcation Problem Matters’ 1:43:12

3+ y ago1:43:12

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Maarten Boudry. They speak about how we distinguish between science and pseudoscience (otherwise known as the demarcation problem), Karl Popper’s famous solution involving falsifiability, why the demarcation problem persists and remains a live issue and ho…

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The Popperian Podcast #4 – Robin Attfield – ‘Pre-echoes of Popper - Xenophanes and Parmenides’ 1:11:15

3+ y ago1:11:15

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Robin Attfield. They speak about the life and work of the pre-Socratic philosophers Xenophanes and Parmenides, how Xenophanes in particular has been unjustly disparaged and misunderstood over the years, how Karl Popper rehabilitated Xenophanes’ image and h…

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Survey of The Sovereignty of God Through The Psalms Part Two: We cannot Be The Same 23:33

3+ y ago23:33

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We Cannot Be The Same. In this Segment as we continue to expand on Psalm 1 we see that God calls us to live a Holy Life and that when we meet Him we cannot remain the same. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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Survey of The Sovereignty of God Through The Psalms: Surrendering to God. 23:40

3+ y ago23:40

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In this episode we’re going to look at Psalm 1 and how we can surrender and consecrate ourselves to God. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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The Popperian Podcast #3 – Nicholas Maxwell – ‘More Popperian than Popper’ 1:53:36

3+ y ago1:53:36

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nicholas Maxwell. They speak about Karl Popper’s scientific method, what Maxwell’s disagreements with Popper are, the difference between bare and dressed falsificationism, the problems presented by the apparent unity of knowledge and the preference within …

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The Popperian Podcast #2 – Matteo Collodel – ‘Karl Popper vs. Paul Feyerabend’ 1:36:00

3+ y ago1:36:00

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Matteo Collodel. They speak about the role that Karl Popper and critical rationalism played in the intellectual development of Paul Feyerabend, the nature of the Feyerabend-Popper relationship, the Popperian ‘School’ that formed at the London School of Eco…

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The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’ 1:31:46

3+ y ago1:31:46

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This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Deutsch. They speak about the history of humanity and philosophy, epistemology and the problem of discovering truth, failed attempts to solve this such as with empiricism and induction, Karl Popper’s solution to this problem (conjecture and refutatio…

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He Makes All Things New. 9:02

4y ago9:02

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Jesus makes all things new if we allow Him. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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Someone Greater is with us. 20:06

4y ago20:06

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2nd Cronciles 32:1-7. Trusting in the Lord. He is the One Greater than what we face. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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Psalm 46: God our Help 6:46

4+ y ago6:46

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God our help, in times of distress and uncertainty. In God alone, do we find certainty. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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The Gospel of The Kingdom. 24:07

5+ y ago24:07

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An introduction to the Kingdom Life and expected Life from God, in order to build up the Body of Christ. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elgin-hlaka/support

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#103: SCREENIES 2018 — LAST HURRAH BEFORE HIATUS

6y ago

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Paul and Elgin share their picks for best scene, best performance, and best overall work across all of screendom in the past 12 months. The final edition of the annual screenies awards before we go on indefinite hiatus. We bid you a bittersweet goodbye. Thank you, all, for listening over the past five years!!! We really appreciate your attention an…

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#102: BLACKKKLANSMAN

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BlacKkKlansman. Elgin and Paul review #BlacKkKlansman: BlacKkKlansman, directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. We share our takes on Lee’s latest joint–and they’re both against the critical consensus. http://archive.org/download/ScreenStuffPodcast102/ScreenStuffP…

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#101: CRAZY RICH ASIANS

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Crazy Rich Asians, with briefer takes on Mission: Impossible–Fallout, Howard’s End on Starz, Wild Wild Country, and How to Make It in America. Paul and Elgin review #CrazyRichAsians: Crazy Rich Asians (35:35), directed by Jon M. Chu from the screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the novel by Kevin Kwan, and starring Constance Wu, Mi…

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#100: A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL

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A Very English Scandal. Paul and Elgin review A #VeryEnglishScandal: A Very English Scandal on Amazon Prime (originally on the BBC), written by Russell T Davies, directed by Stephen Frears, and starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. This three-part minseries tells the stories of Jeremy Thorpe (Grant), a Member of Parliament, and Norman Josiffe/Scott …

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#99: SHARP OBJECTS

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Sharp Objects, plus some chit-chat on the 2018 Emmy nominations. Paul and Elgin review #SharpObjects: Sharp Objects on HBO, created by Marti Noxon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson. An eight-episode prestige drama (and Vallée’s follow-up to Big Little Lies), Sharp Obj…

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