https://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-136-science-wissenschaft-and-the-changing-boundaries-of-knowledge/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:54:14+00:00Excursus 136 – Science, Wissenschaft, and the Changing Boundaries of KnowledgeHegel, philosophy, translation, science, Marx, scientific knowledge, Gurvitch, empirical science, Engels, Wissenschaft, disciplinary terminologyhttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-135-on-interdisciplinary-brainstorming-and-the-responsibility-to-listen/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:51:41+00:00Excursus 135 – On Interdisciplinary Brainstorming and the Responsibility to Listeninterdisciplinary inquiry, scientific models, analogy, brainstorming, conceptual transfer, listening, epistemic responsibility, model migration, disciplinary boundarieshttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-134-on-correlation-regression-and-causality-the-missing-counterfactual/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:48:42+00:00Excursus 134 – On Correlation, Regression, and Causality: The Missing Counterfactualsociology, missing data, causal models, correlation, causality, regression, counterfactuals, Paul Holland, potential outcomes, Donald Rubin, Sewall Wrighthttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-133-technical-concepts-ordinary-language-and-conceptual-precision/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:45:52+00:00Excursus 133 – Technical Concepts, Ordinary Language, and Conceptual Precisionphilosophy, definitions, ordinary language, symbols, conceptual precision, technical concepts, formalization, notation, semantic contamination, natural sciencehttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-132-on-wittgensteins-ladder-russells-paradox-and-the-liar-paradox/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:43:10+00:00Excursus 132 – On Wittgenstein’s Ladder, Russell’s Paradox, and the Liar Paradoxself-application, logical consistency, self-reference, paradox, philosophy of language, logical types, liar paradox, Russell, Wittgenstein, metalanguagehttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-131-on-the-asymmetry-between-construction-and-collapse/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:40:45+00:00Excursus 131 – On the Asymmetry Between Construction and Collapsediscontinuity, interdependence, reconstruction, construction, gradual change, collapse, complex systems, stability, revolution, historical changehttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-130-on-eponymous-schools-of-thought/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:38:24+00:00Excursus 130 – On Eponymous Schools of Thoughtterminology, classification, Marx, theoretical identity, Darwin, schools of thought, eponymy, Alfred Russel Wallace, intellectual genealogy, founder-independent theoryhttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/12/excursus-129-on-the-end-of-the-age-of-the-intellectual-giant/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-12T06:36:19+00:00Excursus 129 – On the End of the Age of the Intellectual Giantphilosophy of science, scientific progress, communication, specialization, intellectual history, intellectual giants, research communities, collaboration, democratizationhttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/11/excursus-128-on-definitions-and-their-instances/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-11T15:59:12+00:00Excursus 128 – On Definitions and Their Instancesmethodology, concepts, classification, conceptual analysis, communication, Abstraction, instances, definition, counterinstanceshttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/11/excursus-127-on-multiple-levels-of-explanation-in-social-science/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-11T15:56:44+00:00Excursus 127 – On Multiple Levels of Explanation in Social Sciencesocial science, sociology, evolutionary biology, sociality, behavioral ecology, explanation levels, interdisciplinary methodology, biological variation, multidimensional analysishttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/11/excursus-126-on-the-methodological-limits-of-classical-sociobiology/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-11T15:54:29+00:00Excursus 126 – On the Methodological Limits of Classical Sociobiologymethodology, genetics, social science, quantitative genetics, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, sociality, evolutionary game theory, behavioral ecology, adaptationismhttps://hosseinjorjani.com/2026/08/11/excursus-125-on-the-geometry-of-ideas/Hossein Jorjanien2026-08-11T15:51:34+00:00Excursus 125 – On the Geometry of Ideasclassification, political philosophy, Marxism, geometry of ideas, conceptual distance, conceptual space, liberalism, ring species, multidimensional comparison, ideological reductionism, decision-making, topology, economic concentration