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Posts from the ‘Philosophy of Science’ Category

611.20.11Detecting immaterial causes

111.14.11Schopenhauer and innovation

311.2.11Shaun Nichols, intuitions about reasons for action, and free will

111.2.11Business, Science, and 10Xers

010.24.11Shaun Nichols on the illusion of free will

210.12.11Jonathan Huebner, John Smart, and the rate of technological change

110.11.11The structure of causality

010.6.11What should the current picture of science tell us?

09.27.11Randolph Clarke on the evidence for non-deterministic theories of free will

19.27.11Epistemic humility

09.17.11Newcomb’s Paradox: A Solution Using Robots

19.6.11Charlton on questions

27.10.11Practice and proposition

36.3.11Science and agency

15.29.11Mere myth, literalism, and truth

25.14.11Kreeft, angels, and what’s unscientific

05.8.11Are chairs real?

25.8.11Kreeft on academics

23.31.11Epistemic momentum

12.28.11Bruce Charlton’s Psychology of Political Correctness

02.2.11Personal Science vs. Amateur Science

02.2.11The Doctrine of Natural Equality and Contemporary American Politics

01.6.11Cause and compliance

112.7.10Why did the gods live on a mountain?

012.5.10James Watt’s Schooling

011.3.10Frans de Waal, Robert Wright, and whether one should act ‘morally’

09.29.10Philosophical Zombies, Chalmers, and Armstrong

09.21.10Ned Markosian and Mereological Nihilism

09.12.10Intrinsic and Extrinsic

29.3.10The pace of real science

18.30.10Gods and Goddesses

18.20.10Why do scientific representations work?

28.17.10What does abstract, quantitative representation say?

18.15.10Quantity, Quality, and a Materialist Pandora’s Box

18.12.10Truth, religion, and science

28.9.10Would dragons exist if …?

28.6.10What is natural?

18.5.10Philosophical arguments for the (non-)existence of God, and intuition

38.4.10McGinn, James, and Empiricism

18.2.10Morality and rational self-interest

28.1.10Two levels of decision: moral and political

27.30.10Moral intuitions and universalism

17.28.10Ad Hoc Rationales and Legal Trends

07.27.10Longevity as a marker of societal success

57.25.10The Problem of the Subjective Self

17.23.10McGinn, Atheism, and Workable Moral Systems

37.22.10Railton’s “near morality”

27.21.10McGinn’s Moral System

37.21.10What makes a moral system work?

17.21.10Darwin’s Idea?

27.18.10Taleb’s Investment

07.16.10Science, Black Swans, and Insider-Outsiders

07.14.10Sir Francis Galton’s Scientific Priesthood

27.11.10Galton’s Men of Science and Contemporary Science

17.9.10Percy Spencer, Education, and Technological Advancement

37.8.10Charlton and the Scientific Bubble

27.6.10Faraday’s Education and the Scientific Dark Age

27.4.10The Incredible Success of the “Amateur” Scientist Model

06.30.10Charlton, a New Pragmatism, and the Philosophy of Investigation

16.29.10Cooking as science

36.24.10Human capability, exploration, and Charlton’s hypothesis

06.5.10Barbarians at the Epistemic Gates