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2 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
“My starting point was The Open Society & Its Enemies, volume 2, which is about Marx, which is probably the aspect of his philosophy that I was and am least interested in — and yet I was totally captivated by this book because previously the only philosophy I’d read was Bertrand Russell.”
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- 2 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Which is Popper’s best book, in your opinion? That depends where you’re coming from. I’m very fond of The Myth of the Framework, but I’m not sure that I would recommend that as a starting point. And it wasn’t my starting point, either. My starting point was The Open Society & Its Enemies, volume 2, which is about Marx, which is probably the aspect of his philosophy that I was and am least interested in — and yet I was totally captivated by this book because previously the only philosophy I’d read was Bertrand Russell. Coming onto Popper after Bertrand Russell was like, “Oh my god, this guy is actually dealing with problems, and he actually has theories that make sense” — rather than just going through the history of stuff: “A person said this; another person said that,” and then we’ve got the problem of induction. And that’s it: you know the problem of induction — full stop. That’s the end of the story. There’s never any solution to the problem of induction until you get to Popper. Are we living in a simulation?…
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