Philosophical Excursus

Excursus 098 – On an Additional Criterion for Evaluating Philosophers

epistemology, evaluation, history of philosophy, intellectual responsibility, interdisciplinary inquiry, Kant, philosophy, philosophy of science, scientific literacy, scientific progress
Excursus 097 – On Events and Processes

change, continuity, event, historical explanation, paradigm shift, phase transition, philosophy of science, Process, scientific development, Scientific Revolution
Excursus 096 – On Selection in Scientific Inquiry

epistemology, philosophy of science, scientific inquiry, attention, selection, research methodology, research priorities, scarcity, academic freedom
Excursus 095 – On Manifestations of Change

adaptation, change, contradiction, dialectic, negation, opposition, philosophical methodology, philosophy of change, reciprocity
Excursus 094 – On Formal Logic and Changing Reality

Abstraction, Changing reality, deduction, Dialectics, Formal logic, Identity, methodology, Non-contradiction, Process, social theory
Excursus 093 – On the Two Stages of Historical Inquiry

archaeology, evidence, historical methodology, historiography, history, interpretation, manuscripts, natural sciences, radiocarbon dating, scientific method
Excursus 092 – On Structured Inference

causal models, covariance, dependence, epistemology, linkage disequilibrium, philosophy of science, reconstruction, scientific inference, scientific methodology, structured inference
Excursus 091 – On Reconstruction as a Form of Scientific Inference

epistemology, extrapolation, imputation, inference, interpolation, missing data, philosophy of science, reconstruction, scientific methodology, structural constraints
Excursus 090 – On Simplicus and Compositum

complexity, emergence, measurement, methodology, models, observations, philosophy of science, reductionism, scientific method, systems
Excursus 089 – On Doubt as a Method of Conceptual Revision

conceptual evolution, conceptual revision, dialectic, dogmatism, doubt, epistemology, philosophy of science, reality, scientific method
Excursus 088 – On the Historical Functions of Doubt

Descartes, dialectic, doubt, epistemology, Gurvitch, Hegel, history of philosophy, scholasticism, Socrates
Excursus 087 – On Three Historical Functions of Dialectic

Abelard, dialectic, epistemology, Hegel, history of philosophy, Kierkegaard, ontology, Plato, soteriology
Excursus 086 – On the Reciprocity Between Philosophy and Science

conceptual innovation, empirical inquiry, epistemology, history of science, intellectual responsibility, philosophy, reciprocity, science, scientific methodology, scientific progress
Excursus 085 – On Disciplinary Isolation

communication, epistemology, expertise, intellectual fragmentation, interdisciplinarity, philosophy of science, scientific communities, scientific disciplines, specialization
Excursus 084 – On the Distance Problem

conceptual drift, Francis Bacon, hermeneutics, historical method, historiography, intellectual history, interpretation, philosophy of science, primary sources, secondary literature
Excursus 083 – On the Canonization Problem

Albert Einstein, canonical figures, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, historiography, history of science, Isaac Newton, philosophy of science, scientific communities, scientific progress
Excursus 082 – On the Age Problem

Charles Darwin, conceptual evolution, Francis Bacon, historiography, history of science, intellectual history, philosophy of science, scientific methodology, scientific progress, Thomas Kuhn
Excursus 081 – On Science and Technology

applied science, engineering, explanation, invention, philosophy of science, prediction, science, scientific method, technological development, technology
Excursus 080 – On Probability and the Transformation of Modern Science

Bayesian inference, epistemology, philosophy of science, prediction, probability, risk, scientific method, statistics, stochastic processes, uncertainty
Excursus 079 – On Quantification in Science

computation, mathematical modelling, mathematics, measurement, philosophy of science, precision, quantification, scientific method, scientific progress, statistics