Philosophical Excursus

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
Excursus 030 – On the Changing Landscape of Scientific Inquiry

epistemology, evidence, induction, inquiry, knowledge, objectivity, philosophy of science, reasoning, scientific method, truth
Excursus 029 – On the Stability of Conceptual Definitions

concepts, conceptual evolution, definitions, epistemology, hermeneutics, history of ideas, language, methodology, philosophy, terminology
Excursus 028 – On Individual Variations

adaptation, biology, diversity, evolution, evolutionary theory, genetics, heredity, individual variation, natural selection, populations
Excursus 027 – On Teleology

adaptation, Aristotle, biology, causation, Charles Darwin, evolution, final cause, Francis Bacon, Niko Tinbergen, teleology
Excursus 026 – On the Asymmetry Between Verification and Falsification

deduction, epistemology, falsification, hypotheses, induction, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, testing, verification
Excursus 025 – On Epistemological Distortion

cognitive bias, distortion, epistemology, evidence, interpretation, knowledge, methodology, observation, philosophy of science, scientific method
Excursus 024 – On the Anthropomorphic Mind and God

anthropomorphism, cognitive bias, epistemology, Francis Bacon, God, philosophy, philosophy of religion, projection, religion, theology
Excursus 023 – On the Significance of The “Man is the measure of all things.”

epistemology, Greek philosophy, knowledge, objectivity, perception, philosophy of science, Plato, Protagoras, relativism, truth
Excursus 022 – On the History of Systematic Cognitive Bias

cognitive bias, epistemology, Francis Bacon, heuristics, history of ideas, idola mentis, judgment, psychology, reasoning, scientific method
Excursus 021 – On Recollection, Implicit Learning, and the Origins of Knowledge

cognitive science, epistemology, implicit learning, knowledge acquisition, learning, memory, philosophy of mind, Plato, psychology, recollection
Excursus 020 – On Communication across Paradigms

communication, conceptual frameworks, epistemology, hermeneutics, paradigms, philosophy of science, scientific change, scientific revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, translation
Excursus 019 – On Intellectual Inheritance, Conceptual Anagenesis, and the Three-Generation Heuristic

anagenesis, conceptual change, conceptual evolution, epistemology, history of ideas, innovation, intellectual inheritance, methodology, scientific progress, traditions