Reddit reviews The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath

Karl Popper agrees enthusiastically with you:

>In order to discourage the reader beforehand from taking Hegel's bombastic and mystifying cant too seriously, I shall quote some of the amazing details which he discovered about sound, and especially about the relations between sound and heat. I have tried hard to translate this gibberish from Hegel's Philosophy of Nature as faithfully as possible; he writes: '§ 302. Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; -- merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e. -- heat. The heating up of sounding bodies, just as beaten or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.'

>There are some who still believe in Hegel's sincerity, or who still doubt whether his secret might not be profundity, fullness of thought, rather than emptiness. I should like them to read carefully the last sentence -- the only intelligible one -- of this quotation, because in this sentence, Hegel gives himself away. For clearly it means nothing but: 'The heating up of sounding bodies...is heat...together with sound.'

Here are mine..

Five works by Karl Popper, who IMHO is the greatest skeptical thinker who ever lived:

• Open Society and its Enemies, Volumes One and Two
  
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
  
• The Poverty of Historicism
  
• Conjectures and Refutations
  
  And two books by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, who may be the greatest skeptical thinker currently living:
  
  
• Fooled by Randomness
  
• The Black Swan
  
  Taleb has also just come out with another book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, which is funny and has an important message, but doesn't really go deep into his ideas as the earlier books. Personally I am looking forward to his next book on the subject of "Anti-Fragility", a concept coined by Taleb himself.
  
  Any serious reader of /r/skeptic should be familiar with the ideas put forward by both of these men.
  
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For more reading, try Karl Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1, and vol. 2.

Try Jacob Bronowski's Science and Human Values.

Also, try Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine. While this isn't strictly about fallibilism, it describes how memes are an example of the problem-solving method.