34 episodes

Interviewing academics, professionals and other experts, The Popperian Podcast is a monthly podcast where Jed Lea-Henry looks into the philosophy and life of Karl Popper.

The Popperian Podcast Jed Lea-Henry

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Interviewing academics, professionals and other experts, The Popperian Podcast is a monthly podcast where Jed Lea-Henry looks into the philosophy and life of Karl Popper.

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

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

    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 William F. Vilas Research Professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin—Madison.
    Mehmet Elgin is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla – Turkey.
    *** Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory (PDF) Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory (researchgate.net)
     
    The Popperian Podcast is non-profit. I am not looking to make a profit or earn a salary, and never will. But if you are interested in helping to cover the ongoing costs of the podcast – hosting fees, storage fees, recording fees, etc.: approximately $100 per month (keep an eye on the total donations and don’t contribute anything that takes us substantially over that amount) – please do so at the links below. Thank you for the help!
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    • 1 hr 13 min
    The Popperian Podcast #33 – Flavio Del Santo – ‘Karl Popper and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’

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

    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 University of Geneva, the Group of Applied Physics; Faculty at Constructor University in Geneva; and Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna. Flavio works on the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum communication, history of modern physics; fundamental differences between quantum and classical physics; interpretations of quantum mechanics; and the social and historical development of modern science.
    *** Beyond Method: The Diatribe Between Feyerabend and Popper Over the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (9) (PDF) Beyond Method: The Diatribe Between Feyerabend and Popper Over the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (researchgate.net)
    *** Karl Popper's forgotten role in the quantum debate at the edge between philosophy and physics in 1950s and 1960s Karl Popper's forgotten role in the quantum debate at the edge between philosophy and physics in 1950s and 1960s | Request PDF (researchgate.net)
    *** Genesis of Karl Popper's EPR-Like Experiment and its Resonance amongst the Physics Community in the 1980s (PDF) Genesis of Karl Popper's EPR-Like Experiment and its Resonance amongst the Physics Community in the 1980s (researchgate.net)
    *** The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics (9) (PDF) The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics (researchgate.net)
     
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    • 1 hr 15 min
    The Popperian Podcast #32 – Seamus O’Mahony – ‘Freud and Psychoanalysis - The Story of Science, Pseudoscience and Sex’

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

    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. Amazon.com: The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis (Audible Audio Edition): Seamus O'Mahony, Seamus O'Mahony, W. F. Howes Ltd: Books
    Seamus O’Mahony is a doctor and prize-winning author. He worked for many years in the NHS, returning to his native city of Cork in 2001, where he was a gastroenterologist and clinical professor until February 2020. His first book The Way We Die Now won the British Medical Association’s council chair’s choice award in 2017. His second book Can Medicine be Cured? was published in 2019, and his book The Ministry of Bodies was published by Head of Zeus in March 2021. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books and the Medical Independent. He has written also for the Observer, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Saturday Evening Post. He is a member of the Lancet commission on “The Value of Death” and is visiting professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London.
    *** Home - Seamus O'Mahony (seamusomahony.com)
     
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    • 1 hr 21 min
    The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – ‘The Popper-Bartley Debate’

    The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – ‘The Popper-Bartley Debate’

    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 rationalism.
    Dmytro Sepetyi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Studies at Zaporizhzhia State Medical University (Ukraine).
    *** Dmytro Sepetyi’s Personal Page geocities.ws/sepety/
     
    The Popperian Podcast is non-profit. I am not looking to make a profit or earn a salary, and never will. But if you are interested in helping to cover the ongoing costs of the podcast – hosting fees, storage fees, recording fees, etc.: approximately $100 per month (keep an eye on the total donations and don’t contribute anything that takes us substantially over that amount) – please do so at the links below. Thank you for the help!
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    • 1 hr 8 min
    The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’

    The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– ‘Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes’

    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 Ontario for his dissertation ‘A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend’s Well-Ordered Science’, and he is the editor of ‘Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Papers’. Cambridge University Press.
    *** Home – Jamie Shaw (wordpress.com)
    *** Amazon.com: Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays: 9781108471992: Bschir, Karim, Shaw, Jamie: Books
     
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    • 1 hr 23 min
    The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’

    The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – ‘Jacques Barzun’

    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 moved into the social sciences in Sydney but did not achieve an academic career and spent most of his professional career in policy, planning and research on health and welfare issues. His main interest after he encountered Popper’s ideas on critical rationalism, objective knowledge & etc. was to explore and explain their implications and applications. His first wife (Kilmeny Niland 1950-2009) was a talented and versatile artist and she created the beautiful Rathouse website to provide a platform for Rafe’s interpretation of the work of Popper, Bartley III, Hayek and others including the great psychologists Karl Buhler and Ian D. Suttie.
    *** The Rat House - Karl Popper, Hayek, and Mises' philosophies.Insights by Rafe Champion. (the-rathouse.com)
    *** The Popperian Podcast #17 – Rafe Champion – ‘Karl Popper’s Social Turn’
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    • 1 hr 16 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

sidneyhart ,

Sidney Hart

I would have given this podcast 4 stars—excellent but not brilliant—for its careful and unhurried discussions of various aspects of the thoughts of the truly great Karl Popper.

But I will give it only two because of the extreme obnoxiousness of the most recent interview with the rabid Zionist, Richard Landes, a conversation that had nothing to do with Popper and everything to do with the sanctifying of the state of Israel. The interview was rancid with cultural chauvinism and the worst kind of bigotry and self-pity.

I write this as a Jew and it gives me no pleasure to do so.

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