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...defense of rationalism, Popper refuted the attack that moral decadence stems from intellectualism by an affirmation that moral development has kept up with the intellectual advances of the world. Said Popper: "More men feel themselves responsible for men far away than they ever did before...
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...
...Popper defined science as "a friendly rivalry where each scientist tries to prove the other wrong . . . it consists in having ideas--queer, bold, inventive--rather than in careful observation...
...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...
Once a member of the original Vienne Circle, Popper was exiled by the Anschluss during...