On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:36:56 -0400 Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reference, which fits into my > current investigation of the Positivist Dispute. > > I need a reference to Richard W. Miller's critique of Popper.
Miller covers Popper and positivism in *Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History ( Princeton University Press, 1984). See pp. 236-240, where Miller advances an alternative account of the falsification of scientific theories. Also, pp. 292-301 where he discusses confirmation and attempts to provide an alternative account to the one provided by both the positivists and Popper. Also see pp 304-313 for his discussion of positivists and politics. Jim F. > > At 12:29 PM 9/13/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > >Louis Proyect posted the following announcement > >on his Marxmail list concerning the latest issue > >of the journal Cultural Logic. I found > >the article by Hristos Verikukis > >"Popper's Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism > ," > >to be quite interesting. Verikukis basically convicts > >Popper of having been inconsistent in the way > >he defined and applied his concept of falsifiability > >as a criterion for demarcating science from > >non-science. Popper, according to > >Verikukis, was much stricter about > >defining falsifiability when applying > >to Marxism (which Popper claimed > >was not falsifiable and hence, not science) > >than he was when applying to his > >own situationalist brand of social > >science, where he embraced what > >he called the Principle of Rationality, > >which he variously described as being > >not falsifiable, or was falsified but > >still in some sense true. Anyway, > >I think that Verikukis's article > >dovetails with the criticisms that > >other writers like Cornell philosopher > >Richard W. Miller have made of > >Popper's critique of Marxism. > > > >http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/Verikukis.pdf > >------------------------------- > >http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/2007.html > >Tenth-Anniversary Issue > > > >(The current issue files are in pdf format. Click below to > download > >the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader.) > > > >Articles > >(Names listed alphbetically) > > > >Roland Boer > >"Socialism, Christianity, and Rosa Luxemborg" > > > >Philip Bounds > >"George Orwell and the Dialogue with English Marxism" > > > >Paula Cerni > >"The Age of Consumer Capitalism" > > > >Stephen C. Ferguson II > >"Social Contract as Bourgeois Ideology" > > > >Grover Furr and Vladimir Bobrov > >"Nicolai Bukharin's First Statement of Confession in the Lubianka" > > > >Catherine Gouge > >"'Amibivalent Technologies' of American Citizenship" > > > >Bruno Gulli > >"Early Plenitude: An Essay on Sovereignty and Labor" > > > >Katerina Kolozova > >"The Project of Non-Marxism: > >Arguing for 'Monstrously' Radical Concepts" > > > >John Maerhofer > >"Aimé Céasare and the Crisis of Aesthetic and Political Vangardism > " > > > >Michael Mikulak > >"Cross-pollinating Marxism and Deep Ecology: > >Towards a Post-humanist Eco-humanism" > > > >Terence Patrick Murphy > >"From Alignment to Commitment: > >The Early Work of James Kelman" > > > >Ronald Paul > >""To turn the whole world upside-down': > >Women and Revolution in The Non-Stop Connolly Show " > > > >Philip Tonner > >"Freud, Bentham: Panopticism and the Super-Ego" > > > >Hristos Verikukis > >"Popper's Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism > " > > > >Reviews > > > >Ivan Cañadas > >Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe > > > >David Hursh > >Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine > >and > >Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Pedagogy and Praxis in the > Age of > >Empire > > > >Howard Pflanzer > >Robert Roth, Health Proxy > > > >Louis Proyect > >Amazing Grace > > > >Charlie Samuya Veric, Tamara Powell, and John Streamas > >E. San Juan, Jr., Balikbayang Mahal > > > > > >Poetry > > > >Christopher Barnes > >Poems > > > > > >Dave Bruzina > >"Boom" and "The Committee Dissolves" > > > > > >Iftekhar Sayeed > >Poems > > > > > >George Snedeker > >"The History Lesson" and Other Poems > > > > > >Contributors > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > ____________________________________________________________ Meditate on the best. Find great yoga mats for less by clicking now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3n58mpyTk08WEh4Vy6E0XusjzcttMsSIzqV418Hb6A0lyRpP/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
