Time to post a link to an old Liberator article of mine:
So read Rorty, Popper and Berlin. Read L.T. Hobhouse if you want and pretend to have read T.H.Green if you must. But above all read the Mill of On Liberty.
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Time to post a link to an old Liberator article of mine:
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 6
And so we reach the last video from Uncertain Truth.
This was a series of three programmes featuring interviews with Sir Karl Popper in 1988.
The first programme, where the other participant was Ernst Gombrich, looks at the understanding of history. It takes up two videos:
Watch part 1
Watch part 2
The second programme, where the other participant is Sir John Eccles, looks at language.
Watch part 3
Watch part 4
And this third programme where the other participant is Anthony Quinton, looks at human knowledge.
Watch part 5
As I said when introducing the first of these videos, Popper was one of the most important liberal thinkers of the 20th century.
This was as much for his development of an evolutionary understanding of human knowledge as for his more overtly political books.
He died in 1994 at the age of 92. I heard him speak in York round about 1981 when he gave an inaugural lecture for some good cause connected with the Rowntree family.
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 5
And so to the third and final programme in this series, where the interviewer is Anthony Quinton.
Like the other programmes, this one is split across two videos.
Watch part 1
Watch part 2
Watch part 3
Watch part 4
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 4
This is the other half of the second Uncertain Truth programme, which sees Popper in conversation with John Eccles.
Watch part 1.
Watch part 2,
Watch part 3.
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 3
We have reached the second Uncertain Truth programme.
This video is the first half of that programme. This time Popper is in conversation with John Eccles.
Watch part 1.
Watch part 2.
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 2
This is the second half of the first Uncertain Truth programme. The other participant is Ernst Gombrich.
Watch part 1.
Karl Popper interviewed on Channel 4 in 1988 - part 1
For an excellent short introduction to his work see the book by Bryan Mageee.
In 1988 Popper took part in three programmes for Channel 4 under the title Uncertain Truth. In the first one he was interviewed by Ernst Gombrich, and by John Eccles and then Anthony Quinton in the next two.
Those programmes are on Youtube. Each is split in two, there are six videos.
This is the first.
