Philosophical Excursus

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
Excursus 078 – On What Makes a Discipline Scientific?

explanation, measurement, methodology, objectivity, philosophy of science, quantification, science, scientific disciplines, scientific inquiry, scientific method
Excursus 077 – On the Epistemological Consequences of Pedagogical Simplification

conceptual models, dominance, epistasis, genetics, pedagogy, philosophy of science, quantitative genetics, scientific education, simplification
Excursus 076 – On the Historical Lag Between Science and Its Critics

Bayesian inference, conceptual evolution, history of science, logical positivism, philosophy of science, positivism, probability, scientific methodology, scientific realism, uncertainty
Excursus 075 – On the Historical Emergence of Capitalism

Adam Smith, capital, capitalism, economic history, Industrial Revolution, industrialization, Karl Marx, markets, political economy, wage labour
Excursus 074 – On the Uneven Distribution of Human Knowledge

epistemic heterogeneity, epistemology, methodology, objectivity, ontology, philosophy of science, reality, scientific knowledge, uncertainty
Excursus 073 – On Four Sources of Epistemic Incompleteness

conceptual evolution, epistemology, knowledge, objectivity, observer effects, ontology, philosophy of science, reality, scientific method, theory-ladenness
Excursus 072 – On Degrees of Objectivity

epistemology, intersubjectivity, methodology, natural sciences, objectivity, observer effects, philosophy of science, reproducibility, scientific inquiry, social sciences
Excursus 071 – On Intellectual Traditions as Evolving Populations

Aristotle, conceptual evolution, cultural evolution, Francis Bacon, hermeneutics, history of ideas, intellectual inheritance, intellectual traditions, Karl Marx, Plato