My interest in Popper and Bartley

I've been studying the philosophy of Popper since 1975 when I first read his major works. Many of his ideas have influenced and informed much of what I've done since then especially my work on testimony.

Around August 1992, I started a serious study of the work of William Warren Bartley, III, and came to accept his view that pancritical rationalism is better than critical rationalism. One outcome of this research was my paper "Constructing a Comprehensively Anti-justificationist Position". I also compiled a bibliography of Bartley's writings.

In June 2008, simply for pleasure, I decided to reread some works by Popper and some by Bartley. I came to see that Bartley had misinterpreted some of Popper's key insights regarding critical rationalism. The more I read the more I saw that Bartley's account simply did not correspond to what Popper says about critical rationalism. I decided to write about what I had discovered and the result was "On Critical and Pancritical Rationalism" which won the 2008 Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize.

References

Antoni Diller, "Constructing a Comprehensively Anti-justificationist Position" in Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford and David Miller (eds.), Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, vol. II, Metaphysics and Epistemology, [London, Ashgate, 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5376-5], pages 119–129. This paper was presented at the Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress. The original abstract of the paper is also available. (The title of the abstract is slightly different from that of the published paper.) On other pages on this website, I briefly summarise various aspects of this paper:
Antoni Diller, "Testimony from a Popperian Perspective", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, ISSN 0048-3931, vol. 38.4 (2008), pp. 419–456. My work on testimony has been heavily influenced by Popper and Bartley.
Antoni Diller, "A Critical-rationalist Approach to Premise Acceptability", in Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, David Godden and Gordon Mitchell (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation [Amsterdam, 2011, Rozenberg Publishers and Sic Sat Publishers, ISBN 978 90 3610 243 8], chapter 34, pp. 356–365.
Antoni Diller, "On Critical and Pancritical Rationalism" Philosophy of the Social Sciences, ISSN 0048-3931, vol. 43.2 (June 2013), pp. 127–156. This is a revised and much shortened version of the paper that won the 2008 Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize. On other pages on this website, I briefly summarise various aspects of this paper: