#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper

Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper. He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years.

Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.

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Timestamps

0:00 - The commonalities (and differences) between Austrian economics and Popperian epistemology

14:34 - Young Popper’s socialism

25:35 - The sociology of philosophy

29:20 - Two different aspects to Popper’s approach to teaching

36:11 - The situation at the Institute for Humane Studies at GMU

45:45 - Popper’s personality, work ethic, and other interests

52:11 - Against the self-expressionist theory of art

56:24 - Why the ideas of Popper and Hayek aren’t mainstream

1:10:03 - Anarcho-capitalism

1:23:02 - Closing remarks

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