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Our Mission

Understanding how knowledge grows (the primary concern of epistemology) is one of the most fundamental questions that humanity has ever asked. Because the growth of knowledge plays a role in every human endeavor–from science to politics to creating artificial intelligence to raising children to entrepreneurship–getting the answer wrong necessarily leads to blind alleys and errors. Fortunately, Karl Popper, David Deutsch, and other thinkers have discovered and elaborated upon the right answer: that knowledge grows via conjecture and criticism.

Such a simple idea (the entire theory of which is called critical rationalism) has an enormous number of practical implications for all of the aforementioned fields and any other in which humans can make progress. While the revolutions brought forth by Newton, Darwin, and Einstein were profound and improved mankind's lot in the universe, even they were limited to particular strands of human endeavors. But epistemology is universal for any problem a person or society faces. Therefore, spreading critical rationalism and its implications will dissolve barriers to progress that most people do not even know stand in their way.

Board of Directors

Logan Chipkin: President

Logan Chipkin is a writer and editor in Philadelphia. He currently serves as Managing Editor of a nonprofit that works to spread liberty in the West. He has written articles about fundamental physics, economics, history, and Popperian philosophy for outlets such as Gizmodo, Physics World, Quillette, History Magazine, The Libertarian Institute, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and Bitcoin Magazine, and he has written a fantasy novel called Windfall. He has also edited a book written by a prominent physicist and has collaborated with other physicists to communicate their ideas to a general audience. Finally, he hosts and produces Rat Fest, an annual in-person philosophy conference in Philadelphia.

Aaron Stupple: Board Member

Aaron Stupple is a practicing physician and father of five in Western Massachusetts. He has been promoting critical rationalism and the work of Karl Popper and David Deutsch since 2019 in the form of online community building, a web magazine, and Rat Fest, the annual in-person conference in Philadelphia. Currently, Aaron is writing a book on Taking Children Seriously, which is the application of critical rationalism to parenting.

David Kedmey: Board Member

David Kedmey is president and cofounder of EidoSearch, a probability intelligence company managing a software platform that allows financial professionals to generate new trade ideas, discover relationships and reveal trade opportunities spontaneously, by using the data itself as the search query. David provides mentorship and support for those working to promote and develop the ideas of Karl Popper and David Deutsch.