Word: method
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great progress has been achieved in the field of ethics during the last fifty years, Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, declared yesterday afternoon in the first of a series of ten William James Lectures. The talk, entitled: "Is Science Still Interesting," was an introductory analysis to Popper's theories of scientific method...
...method set forth by Popper is essentially pragmatic. He advocated a humanistic outlook of science, a compromise between the axiomatic science of Descartes and the purely experimental science of Bacon. Axioms, he said, must be verified by experience...
Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, will give the first of the 1949-50 William James Lectures in Philosophy tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Emerson D. The lecture will consider the question "Is Science Still Interesting?", and is the first of a series of talks to be given at weekly intervals entitled "The Study of Nature and of Society...
Popper, who is best known for "The Open Society and Its Enemies," will discuss the problem of scientific method as it pertains to the study both of inanimate nature and human relations. He also plans a seminar in the Philosophy Department on "The Structure of Experience," which will deal critically with such problems of semantics as "positivism" and "operationalism...
...Faculty's action against the "informer ously with a major breach in the nation's security in the Fuchs affair, should point up the inadequacy of the present standardized U.S. government method of checking up on loyalty. There are serious things wrong with a system that cannot catch the big men like Fuchs but instead impairs only the freedom of many little men whose lack of important scientific knowledge, as well as their limited access to vital information, may rule them out as effective threats to security...