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Mark Notturno received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1982. He was a friend and associate of Sir Karl Popper, and has lectured on Popper's philosophy in nearly twenty countries in Europe, Asia, and America. He is the author of On Popper, Science and the Open Society, and Objectivity, Rationality and the Third Realm—and the editor of Perspectives on Psychologism. He is also the editor of Popper's The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem.
Notturno held teaching and research positions at several universities and foundations before joining IF. From 1994 through 1999, he was the director of the Soros and Ianus Foundations' 'Popper Project'. He lived in Budapest and Vienna during this time and, with the help of his wife, Dr. Kira Viktorova, organized and directed over forty international workshops, seminars, and summer schools for philosophers and scientists in the countries of the former Soviet Union and socialist bloc. These programs, which focused upon problems pertaining to the philosophy of science and the transition to open society, were distinguished by their round-table discussion format Their participants included more than one thousand faculty and researchers from these countries' universities and research institutes, as well as representatives from their ministries of education.
Since returning to the United States, Notturno has worked on Popper's intellectual differences with F.A. von Hayek regarding rationality, democracy, and economism; on issues arising out of the Supreme Court's adoption of the concept of 'falsifiability' in its 1993 Daubert decision; and on the application of Popper's epistemology to knowledge management and to the problem of medical errors.
Notturno held teaching and research positions at several universities and foundations before joining IF. From 1994 through 1999, he was the director of the Soros and Ianus Foundations' 'Popper Project'. He lived in Budapest and Vienna during this time and, with the help of his wife, Dr. Kira Viktorova, organized and directed over forty international workshops, seminars, and summer schools for philosophers and scientists in the countries of the former Soviet Union and socialist bloc. These programs, which focused upon problems pertaining to the philosophy of science and the transition to open society, were distinguished by their round-table discussion format Their participants included more than one thousand faculty and researchers from these countries' universities and research institutes, as well as representatives from their ministries of education.
Since returning to the United States, Notturno has worked on Popper's intellectual differences with F.A. von Hayek regarding rationality, democracy, and economism; on issues arising out of the Supreme Court's adoption of the concept of 'falsifiability' in its 1993 Daubert decision; and on the application of Popper's epistemology to knowledge management and to the problem of medical errors.