Popper Starts Science Talks

Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, will give the first of the 1949-50 William James Lectures in Philosophy tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Emerson D. The lecture will consider the question "Is Science Still Interesting?", and is the first of a series of talks to be given at weekly intervals entitled "The Study of Nature and of Society."

Popper, who is best known for "The Open Society and Its Enemies," will discuss the problem of scientific method as it pertains to the study both of inanimate nature and human relations. He also plans a seminar in the Philosophy Department on "The Structure of Experience," which will deal critically with such problems of semantics as "positivism" and "operationalism."

Once a member of the original Vienne Circle, Popper was exiled by the Anschluss during the war.