Mr. Armey, you wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Washington could use less Keynes, and more Hayek”. I took you to be a conservative. Am I wrong about this? If you are a conservative I find it odd that you would be praising the views of Hayek who was not. Does [...]
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A Rebuttal to Dick Armey
Posted in Critical Rationalism, Politics on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Critical Rationalism in Everyday Life:Is It Applicable to Politics?
Posted in Critical Rationalism on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is Critical Rationalism? Basically, it’s an approach to how we obtain knowledge and its foremost proponent was the scientific philosopher, Karl Popper. In his book, The Myth of the Framework, Popper stated, “I hold that orthodoxy is the death of knowledge, since the growth of knowledge depends entirely on the existence of disagreement.” In [...]
