Alan Musgrave

Alan Musgrave (b. 1940) has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago since 1970. He was educated at the London School of Economics, where his PhD was supervised by Sir Karl Popper. With Imre Lakatos, he edited Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1970), one of the most influential collections of essays in twentieth-century philosophy of science. His other publications include Common Sense, Science and Scepticism (1993) and Essays on Realism and Rationalism (1999). His views were recently the subject of a book Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (2006).