Philosophical Excursus

Excursus 138 — On the Population-Level Assessment of Ownership Forms

comparative assessment, cooperatives, institutional diversity, institutional viability, ownership forms, participatory governance, persistence, population-level analysis, public ownership, replication
Excursus 137 — On the Epistemic Function of Public Enterprise

benchmarking, economic governance, epistemic dependence, epistemology, institutional competence, operational knowledge, plural economy, public enterprise, public ownership, regulation
Excursus 136 – Science, Wissenschaft, and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge

disciplinary terminology, empirical science, Engels, Gurvitch, Hegel, Marx, philosophy, science, scientific knowledge, translation, Wissenschaft
Excursus 135 – On Interdisciplinary Brainstorming and the Responsibility to Listen

analogy, brainstorming, conceptual transfer, disciplinary boundaries, epistemic responsibility, interdisciplinary inquiry, listening, model migration, scientific models
Excursus 134 – On Correlation, Regression, and Causality: The Missing Counterfactual

causal models, causality, correlation, counterfactuals, Donald Rubin, missing data, Paul Holland, potential outcomes, regression, Sewall Wright, sociology
Excursus 133 – Technical Concepts, Ordinary Language, and Conceptual Precision

conceptual precision, definitions, formalization, natural science, notation, ordinary language, philosophy, semantic contamination, symbols, technical concepts
Excursus 132 – On Wittgenstein’s Ladder, Russell’s Paradox, and the Liar Paradox

liar paradox, logical consistency, logical types, metalanguage, paradox, philosophy of language, Russell, self-application, self-reference, Wittgenstein
Excursus 131 – On the Asymmetry Between Construction and Collapse

collapse, complex systems, construction, discontinuity, gradual change, historical change, interdependence, reconstruction, revolution, stability
Excursus 130 – On Eponymous Schools of Thought

Alfred Russel Wallace, classification, Darwin, eponymy, founder-independent theory, intellectual genealogy, Marx, schools of thought, terminology, theoretical identity
Excursus 129 – On the End of the Age of the Intellectual Giant

collaboration, communication, democratization, intellectual giants, intellectual history, philosophy of science, research communities, scientific progress, specialization
Excursus 128 – On Definitions and Their Instances

Abstraction, classification, communication, concepts, conceptual analysis, counterinstances, definition, instances, methodology
Excursus 127 – On Multiple Levels of Explanation in Social Science

behavioral ecology, biological variation, evolutionary biology, explanation levels, interdisciplinary methodology, multidimensional analysis, social science, sociality, sociology
Excursus 126 – On the Methodological Limits of Classical Sociobiology

adaptationism, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, genetics, methodology, quantitative genetics, social science, sociality, sociobiology
Excursus 125 – On the Geometry of Ideas

classification, conceptual distance, conceptual space, decision-making, economic concentration, geometry of ideas, ideological reductionism, liberalism, Marxism, multidimensional comparison, political philosophy, ring species, topology
Excursus 124 – On the Relationship Between Disciplines and Their Subject Matter

academic disciplines, Aristotle, Bacon, conceptual frameworks, interdisciplinary research, organization of knowledge, philosophy of science, specialization, subject matter, terminology
Excursus 123 – On the Epistemic Uses of Imagination

epistemology, explanation, imagination, Jonathan Swift, mythology, philosophy of science, science fiction, speculation, thought experiments
Excursus 122 – On the Interpretive Authority of Early and Late Writings

authorship, early writings, editorial principles, hermeneutics, intellectual development, interpretation, Marx, mature works, methodology
Excursus 121 – On the Interpretation of Early Philosophical Writings

authorship, early writings, exegesis, hermeneutics, history of philosophy, intellectual development, intellectual history, interpretation, methodology, philosophical development
Excursus 120 – On Dialectics as a Heuristic Rather than an Explanation

causation, conceptual framework, Dialectics, empirical investigation, explanation, heuristic, historical inquiry, historical sociology, methodology, philosophy of science
Excursus 119 – On the Many Meanings of “Empirical”

philosophy of science, observation, empiricism, Gurvitch, empirical evidence, empirical, Locke, Hume, Bacon