The Popperian Podcast
Episodes
#52 – W.W. Bartley and his Critics
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
#51 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 5 and 6
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
#50 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 4 – Part 3
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. ** John Post's description of the...
#49 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 4 – Part 2
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. ** John Post's description of the...
#48 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 4 – Part 1
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. ** John Post's description of the...
#47 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 3
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
#46 – The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 2. Part 2
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
#45 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 2. Part 1'
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #44 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Appendix 1'
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #43 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Chapter 8'
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #42 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley, Chapters 6 and 7'
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #41 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley – Pancritical Rationalism, Ch 5, Part 2'
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #40 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley – Pancritical Rationalism, Ch 5, Part 1'
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #39 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley - Chapters 3 and 4'
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #38 – 'The Retreat to Commitment by W.W. Bartley - Chapters 1 and 2'
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast is part of a series on William Bartley and his book The Retreat to Commitment. *** Retreat to Commitment Retrea...
The Popperian Podcast #37 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – 'Francis Bacon's Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge'
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about Jagdish's new book...
The Popperian Podcast #36 – James Kierstead – 'Education for Science and Democracy'
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. They speak about James' most recent art...
The Popperian Podcast #35 – David Edmonds – 'Murder in the Vienna Circle'
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David's book The Murder ...
The Popperian Podcast #34 – Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin – 'Karl Popper's Changing Assessment of Evolutionary Theory'
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Elliott Sober and Mehmet Elgin. They speak about Karl Po...
The Popperian Podcast #33 – Flavio Del Santo – 'Karl Popper and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics'
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Flavio Del Santo. They speak about Karl Popper's changin...
The Popperian Podcast #32 – Seamus O'Mahony – 'Freud and Psychoanalysis - The Story of Science, Pseudoscience and Sex'
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Popperian Podcast #31 – Dmytro Sepetyi – 'The Popper-Bartley Debate'
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Dmytro Sepetyi. They speak about the debate between Karl...
The Popperian Podcast #30 – Jamie Shaw– 'Paul Feyerabend, Anything Goes'
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Popperian Podcast #29 – Rafe Champion – 'Jacques Barzun'
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Jac...
The Popperian Podcast #28 – Nicholas Maxwell – 'Our Fundamental Problem'
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nicholas Maxwell. They speak about Maxwell's agreements ...
The Popperian Podcast #27 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – 'The Structure of Problems'
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about the importance of ...
The Popperian Podcast #26 – Michael Munger – 'The Calculus of Consent'
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Michael Munger. They speak about James Buchanan and G...
The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – 'The Philosophy of Medical Discovery'
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Donald Gillies. They speak about Donald's time at the Lo...
The Popperian Podcast #24 – Nimrod Bar-Am – 'The Life and Philosophy of Joseph Agassi'
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nimrod Bar-Am. They speak about the life of the philosop...
The Popperian Podcast #23 – Paul Levinson – 'W.W. Bartley and Pancritical Rationalism'
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Paul Levinson. They speak about the philosophy of W.W. B...
The Popperian Podcast #22 – Elyse Hargreaves – 'The Open Society and Its Enemies, and Happiness'
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Elyse Hargreaves. They speak about chapter 10 of Karl Po...
The Popperian Podcast #21 – James Kierstead – 'The Paradox of Tolerance'
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. From The Open Society and Its Enemies, ...
The Popperian Podcast #20 – Susan Blackmore – 'Memes - Rational, Irrational, Anti-Rational'
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Susan Blackmore. They speak about her book The Meme Mac...
The Popperian Podcast #19 – Joseph Agassi – 'Rules of the Game'
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joseph Agassi. They speak about the place for argument a...
The Popperian Podcast #18 – Joseph Agassi – 'Karl Popper's Hopeful Monsters'
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joseph Agassi. They speak about Joseph's background as a...
The Popperian Podcast #17 – Rafe Champion – 'Karl Popper's Social Turn'
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Rafe Champion. They speak about the social (institutiona...
The Popperian Podcast #16 – Michael Ignatieff – 'Finding Consolation in Truth'
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Michael Ignatieff. They speak about Michael's new book O...
The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – 'Defending Baconian Induction'
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jagdish Hattiangadi. They speak about the induction of F...
The Popperian Podcast #14 – Anthony O'Hear – 'Whiffs of Induction'
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Anthony O'Hear. They speak about Anthony's book 'Karl Po...
The Popperian Podcast #13 – Ken Gemes – 'Karl Popper vs. Friedrich Nietzsche'
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Ken Gemes. They speak about the philosophy of Friedrich ...
The Popperian Podcast #12 – Jonathan Rauch – 'The Constitution of Knowledge'
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jonathan Rauch. They speak about Jonathan's books Kindly...
The Popperian Podcast #11 – David Edmonds – 'Wittgenstein's Poker'
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Edmonds. They speak about David's book Wittgenstei...
The Popperian Podcast #10 – Richard Landes – 'Deutsch's Theory of the Pattern - The Widespread Compulsion to Legitimise Hurting Jews'
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Richard Landes. They speak about the history of antisemi...
The Popperian Podcast #9 – Jeremy Shearmur – 'Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and the Future of Liberalism'
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Jeremy Shearmur. They speak about the time that Jeremy s...
The Popperian Podcast #8 – James Kierstead – 'New Zealand and the Authoritarianism of Plato'
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with James Kierstead. They speak about Karl Popper's work The...
The Popperian Podcast #7 – Oseni Taiwo Afisi – 'Karl Popper and Africa'
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Oseni Taiwo Afisi. They speak about Karl Popper's book T...
The Popperian Podcast #6 – Steve Fuller – 'Karl Popper vs. Thomas Kuhn'
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Steve Fuller. They speak about Steve's book Kuhn Vs. Pop...
The Popperian Podcast #5 – Maarten Boudry – 'Diagnosing Pseudoscience - Why the Demarcation Problem Matters'
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Maarten Boudry. They speak about how we distinguish betw...
The Popperian Podcast #4 – Robin Attfield – 'Pre-echoes of Popper - Xenophanes and Parmenides'
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Robin Attfield. They speak about the life and work of th...
The Popperian Podcast #3 – Nicholas Maxwell – 'More Popperian than Popper'
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Nicholas Maxwell. They speak about Karl Popper's scienti...
The Popperian Podcast #2 – Matteo Collodel – 'Karl Popper vs. Paul Feyerabend'
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Matteo Collodel. They speak about the role that Karl Pop...
The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – 'Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity'
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with David Deutsch. They speak about the history of humanity ...