Portrait. Frank Popper

Frank Pantridge portrait unveiling – a photo essay

As part of the Frank Pantridge Legacy symposium at Queens University, the latter part of Thursday 11 th June was devoted to Frank Pantridge's memory. A reception in the Canada room in the Lanyon building of the University took place followed by a formal unveiling of a commissioned oil painting of Frank. The symposium was organised and introduced by Professor Alun Evans (figure 4). The audience ...

Karl R . Popper

I propose to begin my paper on the logic of the social sciences with two theses which formulate the opposition between our knowledge and our ignorance. First thesis: We know a great deal. And we know not only many details of doubtful intellectual interest but also things which are of considerable practical significance and, what is even more important, which provide us with deep theoretical ins...

Social Explanation and Popper

Portrait

Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

Popper and the Omics

and other-omics generate unprecedented amounts of experimental data about cells or tissues under certain conditions. However, from an epistemological point of view, merely fitting data into a model to explain observations is not sufficient; science should strive to describe simple and logical theoretical systems that are testable and that enable predictions (Popper, 1959). This paper tries to a...