I have been unable to cure the 'reply to' problem. Steve's brief respone forwarded below. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:04:54 +1000 To: Andrew@lubs.leeds.ac.uk From: Steve Keen <s.keen@uws.edu.au> Subject: Re: [OPE-L:4155] Who agrees with Popper? [re OPE-L:4154] Popper's theory of how a science does develop and should practice has been rejected since Kuhn. But his litmus test remains a point of agreement. Steve At 10:11 19/10/00 +0100, you wrote: >Steve, > >You wrote [OPE-L:4154]: > >> science has moved on a long way from Popper, his litmus test between a >> science and a non-science--that the former makes statements which can be >> falsified, whereas the latter makes it impossible to either verify or >> disconfirm itself--is still accepted. > >By whom? As I understand it (I'm no expert) it is not accepted, as >a general rule, by current 'philosophers of science' (it hasn't been >since Feyerabend), nor therefore by current 'economic >methodologists' (who tend to be some years behind the philospohy >of science discipline). Far from it, the current vogue is a 'return to >practice' which means rejecting the 'prescriptivism' typified by >Popper and (lamely) *describing* what scientists actually do. > >I certainly don't agree with Popper's 'litmus test'. I don't think Marx >did in the slightest (nor do I agree with the current 'philosophy of >science' - obvioulsy Marx doesn't). However, I'm not really sure >where people on this list stand on the 'litmus test'. Fred stated >agreement with Gil on this I think. It is an important question >anyway. > >Andy > > Dr. Steve Keen Senior Lecturer Economics & Finance University of Western Sydney Macarthur Building 11 Room 30, Goldsmith Avenue, Campbelltown PO Box 555 Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia s.keen@uws.edu.au 61 2 4620-3016 Fax 61 2 4626-6683 Home 02 9558-8018 Mobile 0409 716 088 Home Page: http://bus.macarthur.uws.edu.au/steve-keen/ ------- End of forwarded message -------
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