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Communication/Philosophy

Science exists within philosophy

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

Freddie rejects the notion that data exists in a vacuum: Empiricism exists within a framework of theory, and theory cannot be derived empirically. The fact-valu...

Philosophy

Reductionism in physics and chemistry

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Praj / 1 Comment

Ashutosh Jogalekar explains why chemistry can never be reduced to physics: To me the real problem with reductionism has not really been philosophical as much as...

Communication/Disunity

What is “science” communication?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

According to Thompson-Reuters, eight-thousand and seventy-three science and engineering journals published just over one million peer-reviewed articles in 2010....

Disunity

Another call for disunity and heterogeneity

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

To clarify why I found Williamson’s and Rosenberg’s definition of naturalism so unsatisfying, let’s look at the former’s definition of t...

Philosophy

Science as knowledge vs. science as naturalism

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

On The Stone, Timothy Williamson continues to explore naturalism, most recently to counter Alex Rosenberg’s suggestion that only science produces worthwhi...

Philosophy

On naturalism

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...

Blog Dump/Philosophy

Philosophy of science nerd-fest

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

UPDATE: In the comments, Paul notes that my truncated quote somewhat misstates both him and Feyerabend. I should have been more careful as I know Feyerabend pro...

Philosophy

Does philosophy matter?

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

Stanley Fish questions the usefulness of philosophy outside the academy: Now it could be said (and some philosophers will say it) that the person who deliberate...

Philosophy/Public Discourse

The Scientific Sensibility

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

On a blog I’ve just started reading ardently, Venkat Rao explains why he doesn’t like the scientific method: I don’t like or use the term scientific...

Intelligent Design/Philosophy/Public Discourse

Belated response to the politics of demarcation

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

It has been two months (an eternity in blogging years) since Paul Newall and Michael Pearl insisted that the issue of teaching intelligent design in schools sho...

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