Plato and K. R. Popper

Theory as truth and as ethics.

“…This article is written in the spirit of what might be called a “primer” for careful philosophical explication of the fundamental issues of humanity that constitute the deeper questions and concerns of the disciple, but which seldom rise to the surface or find a place in the disciplinary discourse or in the training of its professionals. Examples of deeper and more sustained treatments would include work by authors such as Taylor (1985, 1989, 2016), Bishop (2007), Brinkmann (2010), Merleau-Ponty (1962), R. N. Williams et al (2021), Goodman (2012), Freeman (2014), Sokolowski (2008), and Martin et al (2009).…”

“…1The history and intellectual legacy of the impoverishment of theory in the discipline because of the dominant role positivist thought has played has been extensively discussed by a number of scholars writing from a variety of perspectives (see, e.g., Bishop, 2007; Faulconer & Williams, 1990; Hibberd & Petocz, 2023; Koch, 1992; Martin & Bickhard, 2013; F. C. Richardson et al, 1999; Robinson, 1999; 2000; Slife & Williams, 1997; Slife et al, 2022; Taylor, 1964; Teo, 2018; Yanchar et al, 2005).…”