Acitivities of the Japan Popper Society

Activities of the Japan Popper Society

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The Japan Popper Society, founded in 1989 by Prof. Jun-ichi Aomi, an old friend of Sir Karl, and other scholars, consists now of about 100 members (not only of professional scholars but also of graduate students and people, who have interest in Popper's Idea.)
The Japan Popper Society is by no means an academic society in the strict sense, much lesser a "Popper fun club". There are in the JPS many members, who are skeptical or critical against the Popperian philosophy.
The Interest in the Ideas of Popper. This is the only one organization principle of us. In the critical spirit of Popper, we hope to exchange our opinions freely and to criticize each other, in order to learn; learn, how to solve our problems better. We refuse relying upon any kind of authority, whether of "ivory tower" or of "elders and betters". So we wish to build an open society and a better world in the sense of Popper.

We have an annual conference (normally in June) every year.

1990	Significance of Popperian Philosophy	Chuo Univ.
1991	Evolutionary Epistemology	Aoyama-Gakuin Univ.
1992	Intellctual Groundwork for Open Society	Tokyo Univ.
1993	How to apply the Popperian Philosophy to the Social Sciences?	Senshu Univ.
1994	Freedom and Determination in the Popperian Philosophy	Keio Univ.
1995	Popper's Republic of Science/Realism in Popper	Osaka City Univ.
1996	Popper and Wittgenstein	Chiba Univ.
1997	Popper and Kuhn	Tokyo Univ.

We also have small bulletin "Popper Letters" (halfyearly) for our members.
We had occasionally lectures of foreign speakers, such as of Prof. Ian C. Jarvie from York Univ. and of Prof. Karl Acham from Univ. of Graz.
With this internet service, we hope to make contact with much more people, who have interests in the Philosophy of Popper.
Members' List of Executive Committee of the JPS

Produced by Yoshihisa Hagiwara, Keio Univ. E-mail: hagiwara@law.keio.ac.jp