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Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists is a book about irrationalism by the philosopher David Stove. First published by Pergamon Press in 1982, it has since been reprinted as Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism and Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult. [WIKI]
Notes
This book has been retitled twice. The titles in chronological order are:
- Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists
- Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism
- Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult
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Critic Roger Kimball of The New Criterion offers a thoughtful, brief survey of David Stove’s work:
https://newcriterion.com/issues/1997/3/who-was-david-stove
The essay is included in Kimball’s anthology, Lives of the Mind: the Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Woodhouse in “Who was David Stove?” pp. 246-272.