Philosophical Excursus

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

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

axioms, deduction, epistemology, Francis Bacon, inductio vera, inductio vulgaris, induction, methodology, Novum Organum, syllogism
Excursus 038 – On AI as External Cognitive Infrastructure

artificial intelligence, cognitive infrastructure, discovery, experiments, Francis Bacon, inference, knowledge organization, scientific method, simulations
Excursus 037 – On Hope and Despair in Scientific Inquiry

discovery, Francis Bacon, hope, impossibility, paradigms, philosophy of science, research programs, scientific inquiry, scientific progress, Thomas Kuhn
Excursus 036 – On Scriptures and Science

authority, Francis Bacon, history of science, methodological naturalism, natural philosophy, religion, science, scientific method, Scripture, theology
Excursus 035 – On the Balance Between Coherence and Variation

adaptation, coherence, complexity, ecology, evolution, evolvability, parliament, Pauli Exclusion Principle, systems theory, variation
Excursus 034 – On the Use of Everyday Examples

Adam Smith, Bacchus, Ceres, everyday life, examples, Francis Bacon, history of ideas, pedagogy, rhetoric
Excursus 033 – On the Reciprocal Development of Philosophy and Science

conceptual change, epistemology, Francis Bacon, hypotheses, interdisciplinary research, philosophy, philosophy of science, recursion, science, scientific method
Excursus 032 – Theoretical Splendour and Empirical Responsibility

AI ethics, economics, empirical responsibility, empiricism, Francis Bacon, literary theory, philosophy of science, scientific method, string theory, theory
Excursus 031 – On Extrapolation

evidence, extrapolation, induction, inference, modelling, philosophy of science, prediction, scientific method, statistics, uncertainty