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rationalism

Douglas Natelson

Scientists' conduct affects science

Nature News has published an excellent feature by Edwin Cartlidge on the
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Indigenous peoples

There's a scientistic eclipse

There is a solar eclipse today and news websites are as usual
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engineers

'Science people'

Two of the most annoying kinds of ‘science people’ I’ve come
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Cade Metz

Slate Star Codex: No time for malice

This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. To
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apoliticism

The real story of 'The Old Guard'

Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch
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Against Method

The rationalists' eclipse

The annular solar eclipse over South India on December 26 provided sufficient
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caste-based discrimination

The alleged politicisation of science

“Don’t politicise X” has become the defence of choice for a
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Acharya Kanad

Some notes on empiricism, etc.

The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background
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big crunch

Dying in a finite universe

In his book Infinite In All Directions (2002), Freeman Dyson, one of
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computational theory of mind

A latent monadology: An extended revisitation of the mind-body problem

In an earlier post, I’d spoken about a certain class of
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