Philosophical Excursus

Excursus 058 – On the Ecology of Inference

induction, scientific method, epistemology, deduction, philosophy of science, evolution, inference, Bayesian inference, inference to the best explanation, cognitive development
Excursus 057 – On Positivism

academic disciplines, Auguste Comte, conceptual evolution, epistemology, Karl Popper, methodology, philosophy of science, positivism, scientific method, Vienna Circle
Excursus 056 – On the Three Dimensions of an Academic Discipline

academic disciplines, epistemology, history of science, interdisciplinarity, metaphilosophy, methodology, philosophy of science, scholarly inquiry, scientific method, university
Excursus 055 – On Mental Faculties and the Division of Academic Disciplines

academic disciplines, epistemology, formal sciences, Francis Bacon, humanities, mental faculties, natural sciences, pedagogy, scientific method, social sciences
Excursus 054 – On the Hermeneutics of “Dialectic”

Adorno, conceptual evolution, dialectic, Hegel, hermeneutics, history of philosophy, Marx, Sartre, terminology, Žižek
Excursus 053 – On the Identity of Scientific and Philosophical Theories

conceptual change, conceptual evolution, explanatory architecture, methodology, Neo-Darwinism, Neo-Kantianism, philosophy of science, Post-Marxism, theoretical identity, theory
Excursus 052 – On the Retrospective Expansion of Historical Concepts

anachronism, classification, conceptual change, conceptual evolution, hermeneutics, historical concepts, historical interpretation, history of ideas, methodology, terminology
Excursus 051 – On Capital and Capitalism

capital, capitalism, economic history, Industrial Revolution, industrialization, markets, political economy, private property, Proudhon, Saint-Simonians
Excursus 050 – On Scientific Growth

allopatry, conceptual evolution, disciplines, evolution, hybridization, intellectual history, peripatry, philosophy of science, scientific growth, sympatry
Excursus 049 – On Peripheral Innovation

conceptual evolution, evolution, innovation, intellectual history, interdisciplinarity, paradigms, peripheral populations, scientific change, scientific creativity
Excursus 048 – On Insiders and Outsiders in Scientific Innovation

Albert Einstein, Alfred Wegener, creativity, Gregor Mendel, institutions, Léon Croizat, paradigms, scientific innovation, scientific progress
Excursus 047 – On the Growth of Fields of Expertise

academic disciplines, Aristotle, disciplines, history of science, intellectual history, philosophy, Scientific Revolution, specialization, universities
Excursus 046 – On Natura Non Facit Saltus

causation, continuity, discontinuity, evolution, methodology, natura non facit saltus, phase transitions, philosophy of science, quantum mechanics, scientific method
Excursus 045 – On the Biological and Institutional Senses of Work

biology, division of labour, institutions, labour, markets, methodology, political economy, reproduction, social theory, work
Excursus 044 – On the Primacy of Movement in Dialectical Thought

conflict, contradiction, dialectic, Hegel, Marx, movement, ontology, philosophy, Plato, reciprocity
Excursus 043 – From Pedagogical Models to Ontological Commitments

conceptual scaffolding, education, Georges Gurvitch, models, ontology, pedagogy, philosophy of science, quantitative genetics, scientific method, simplification
Excursus 042 – On Structural and Institutional Levels of Explanation

causation, disability, economics, explanation, institutional constraints, methodology, public policy, reproduction, social science, structural constraints
Excursus 041 – The Productive Role of Imperfect Data

astronomy, Galileo, history of science, imperfect data, inference, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, observation, scientific discovery, scientific method
Excursus 040 – On the Allegory of the Cave and Induction

induction, Francis Bacon, Plato, Allegory of the Cave, statistical inference, David Rubin, Galileo, Ronald Fisher, probability
Excursus 039 – On Bacon’s Asymmetry of Induction and Deduction

axioms, deduction, epistemology, Francis Bacon, inductio vera, inductio vulgaris, induction, methodology, Novum Organum, syllogism