REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY - Part 01/13

REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY: GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ACTING WITHIN SOCIAL SYSTEMS

George Soros
Chairman of Soros Fund Management and
Founder of the Soros Foundation
New York, New York


In May 2006 George Soros, investor, philanthropist, and philosopher, visited The
George Washington University to discuss his book, The Age of Fallibility:
Consequences of the War on Terror. Two conversations occurred which have been edited
to less than two hours. The first conversation is with a rather large group of
faculty members and students. The second conversation is with a smaller group of
faculty members. About half the conversation concerns topics related to politics,
economics and finance, and about half the conversation concerns topics related to the
philosophy of science. These conversations are a good introduction to reflexivity
and fallibility, two concepts central to Soross thinking.

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC. He has been active as a
philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students
attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. Today he is Chairman of the
Open Society Institute and the founder of a network of philanthropic organizations
active in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa,
Latin America, Asia, and the United States. In 1992, Mr. Soros founded the Central
European University, with its primary campus in Budapest. Mr. Soros is the author of
eight books including The Bubble of American Supremacy, 2004, George Soros on
Globalization, 2002; The Alchemy of Finance, 1987; Opening the Soviet System, 1990;
Underwriting Democracy, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The
Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; and Open Society:
Reforming Global Capitalism, 2000. Mr. Soros is a graduate of the London School of
Economics. For more information about George Soros visit
http://www.soros.org/about/bios/a_soros

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