Philosophical Excursus

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
Excursus 070 – On the Distinction Between Epistemological and Ontological Claims

epistemology, knowledge, observer, ontology, philosophy of science, realism, reality, scientific realism, social construction, sociology
Excursus 069 – On Observer Effects and Scale

astronomy, epistemology, financial markets, measurement, observer effects, quantum mechanics, reflexivity, scale, scientific method
Excursus 068 – On the Original Meaning of “Dialectic”

conceptual evolution, dialectic, etymology, Georges Gurvitch, Greek philosophy, Hegel, hermeneutics, Karl Marx, Plato, terminology
Excursus 067 – On Conflict and Reciprocity as Forms of Movement

complementarity, conflict, contradiction, dialectic, Georges Gurvitch, interdependence, movement, ontology, opposition, reciprocity
Excursus 066 – On the Four Epistemic Modes of Modern Science

computational simulation, epistemology, experiment, Francis Bacon, in silico experiments, inference, mathematical modelling, observation, philosophy of science, scientific method
Excursus 065 – On the Ripley Principle: The Evolution of Ideas

conceptual change, conceptual evolution, cumulative knowledge, history of ideas, intellectual inheritance, methodology, paradigms, philosophical theories, Ripley Principle, scientific theories
Excursus 064 – On Viewing the Same Problem from Different Perspectives

conceptual analysis, epistemology, hermeneutics, induction, measurement, perspective, philosophical interpretation, philosophy of science, scientific methodology, theory-ladenness
Excursus 063 – On Knowledge and Power

Francis Bacon, governance, institutions, knowledge, Michel Foucault, political philosophy, power, science, technology
Excursus 062 – On Science, Technology, and the Uses of Knowledge

applied science, engineering, Francis Bacon, Industrial Revolution, innovation, knowledge, methodology, philosophy of science, science, technology
Excursus 061 – On Theory-Ladenness and Scientific Objectivity

epistemology, experimentation, measurement, Norwood Hanson, observation, philosophy of science, scientific objectivity, scientific realism, theory-ladenness, Thomas Kuhn
Excursus 060 – On the Problem of Induction after Hume

Bayesian inference, David Hume, epistemology, hypothetico-deductive model, Immanuel Kant, induction, John Stuart Mill, logical empiricism, philosophy of science, scientific method
Excursus 059 – On Change in the Space of Possibilities

conceptual evolution, dynamic stability, evolution, Georges Gurvitch, Hegel, latent change, neutral mutations, philosophy of history, systems biology, teleology