Philosophy of Science
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“The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch” Important, rational and optimistic book on the philosophy of science. It explores and establishes deep connections between the laws of...
“The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch” It is one of the important and innovative books on the philosophy of science. It explores and establishes deep connections between the...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* It is fairly significant that Hayek was learning about logic, mathematics, and Bertrand Russell from a member of the Schlick and...
Kant gives MIT & Chicago economists the false idea that "science" has to be mechanical, justificatory, and mathematical. Science does not give economists this idea; successful sci...
The answer Hayek and Kuhn give to Carnap and Neurath is that science does not and cannot have a God's Eye View neo-Kantian or Marxist formula for objectivity and "metaphysically pu...
7. Hayek in 1920 developed the Hebbian synaptic learning mechanism, and in 1952 explained how that mechanism provides a how-possible explanation for the intertwined relations of ou...
How to think about thinking about things, with an Example of Ibn Qayyim's At-tibb Al-nabawi Ibn Q had bases of knowledge from Greco-Roman tradition and from corpus of Islamic Lit...
“Philosophers long made a mummy of science.” Opening words of Hacking’s Representing and Intervening. Maybe this’ll be a thread too. Maybe not. Only if it inspires interesting tho...
