July 26, 2002

Giving Karl Popper His Propers

By DAVID COHEN

Scholars reflect on the controversial philosopher 100 years after his birth

In the soft light of an antipodean afternoon, Graham Macdonald is careful to impress his academic orientation upon a visitor. Mr. Macdonald is, as he says, director of the department of philosophy and religious studies here at the University of Canterbury.

"I am not a member of the Karl Popper church," he adds emphatically, during a conversation -- one of many he's had in recent weeks -- on the

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