Popper, Wolpert and critics

Lewis Wolpert

Lewis Wolpert is Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine at University College London. He originally trained as a civil engineer in South Africa, but changed to research in cell and developmental biology in 1955. His main contributions are related to morphogenesis and his concept of positional information. He was for four years Chairman of the Committee for the Public Understanding of Scien...

Art - Wolpert (M)

529 Damage to the human posterior parietal cortex (PPC) can cause perceptual and motor deficits, including visual mislocalization, neglect or unawareness of contralesional visual or tactile stimuli, impaired perception of contralesional body parts and misreaching to visual objects1–4. The study of these syndromes, together with more recent functional imaging investigations of individuals withou...

Social Explanation and Popper

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...

Popper and computer induction.

Introduction In a recent article in BioEssays, John F. Allen uses Popper's philosophy of science to argue on p. 107 that ``There is no induction machine'', and that looking for one will result in ``waste of resources spent on the search itself.'' This argument is of great interest to me because I started my research life as a graduate student in philosophy of science in Popper's department at t...