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A múlt héten elhunyt Daniel Dennett, az ezredforduló környékének egyik legnagyobb hatású amerikai filozófusa nemcsak a szűken…
A múlt héten elhunyt Daniel Dennett, az ezredforduló környékének egyik legnagyobb hatású amerikai filozófusa nemcsak a szűken…
When I first published on what I call ‘synthetic philosophy’ back in 2019, I presented the two key components of the view in…
“There need not be strict disciplinary boundaries between philosophy and other disciplines.” In the following post, Catarina…
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[Over time I am plan to phase out this blog at typepad. This post was first published atdigressions.impressions.substackhere.
There is a kind of relentless contrarian that is very smart, has voracious reading habits, is funny, and ends up in race…
Perhaps eventually an overall Big Picture will emerge—and perhaps not: Hegel thought that the Owl of Minerva would take wing…
The effect of such extreme climate change is difficult to predict. We just do not know what the world would be like if it were…
The effect of such extreme climate change is difficult to predict. We just do not know what the world would be like if it were…
The point is that anyone who takes an interest in the Sorites paradox is going to do so not because life calls for a theory of…
Onthe other Hand, Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and…
As philosophers have begun to express scepticism with traditional briefs for their discipline—including various forms of…
Kim Sterelny:I think philosophers do two different things. So one of the things that they do is methodological. They reflect…
Dewey’s vision is one of “synthetic philosophy.” The philosopher’s reading is not limited to the writings of contemporary…
I share Medawar’s pragmatic vision of scientific reasoning. Scientists must resist the temptation to excessive skepticism: the…
What is the role, if any, of philosophy of science during this pandemic and global lockdown?...So far in the lockdown—May…
This post is inspired by recentdiscussion on Jacob Stegenga's facebook page, and a draft essay he wrote as a follow up to it…
Relying on just one model to say that heterogeneity doesn’t really make any meaningful difference is not how you do “science”…
I have always demanded, wisely or not, my autonomous creative space away from my professional commitments. It may be that I do…
The elimination of conscious fraud is seldom mentioned in formal discussions of the reasons for repetition in science. The quasi…
PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) is an increasingly popular undergraduate and graduate major. In practice there are…