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Defending philosophy of science
From Carl Bergstrom’s Twitter thread about a new book called How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens: The Iron Rule from the book is, in Bergstrom’s retelling, “no use of philosophical reasoning in the mode of Aristotle; no leveraging … Continue reading
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Tagged Against Method, impact factor, Iron Rule of Explanation, Michael Strevens, objectivity, Paul Feyerabend, Richard Dawkins, scientific method, self-correcting
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Epstein’s friends from the ‘Reality Club’
New York magazine has published an alphabetised list of the names of people that find mention in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’, a log book of sorts in which he kept track of the people he entertained, including at his residence … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Christian Ott, Daniel Dennett, Edge Foundation, Geoff Marcy and including Jorge DomÃnguez, Jason Lieb, John Brockman, John R. Searle, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Katze, New Atheists, Reality Club, Richard Dawkins, scholarship, Steven Pinker, Thomas Pogge, William V. Harris
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