Ep 226: Realism and the purposes of philosophy. - podcast episode cover

Ep 226: Realism and the purposes of philosophy.

Dec 12, 20242 hr 17 minEp. 227
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Episode description

I discuss the point of philosophy and how "concrete" the work of Karl Popper and David Deutsch are in marshalling examples taken directly from science in order to illustrate how philosophy solves problems in other areas. Then I have some lengthy remarks on some recent criticism of Popper and Deutsch which is found here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-152605209

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