Philosophical Excursus

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
Excursus 018 – On Epistemology and Cognitive Science

cognition, cognitive science, epistemology, knowledge, learning, perception, philosophy of science, psychology, reasoning, scientific method
Excursus 017 – On Intellectual Autonomy and Heteronomy

authority, critical thinking, education, epistemology, Francis Bacon, heteronomy, independent judgment, inquiry, intellectual autonomy, philosophy
Excursus 016 – On the Progression of Science

Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, hypothesis, induction, instrumentation, scientific method, scientific progress, scientific revolutions, technology, Thomas Kuhn
Excursus 015 – On Mathematical Analysis and in silico Experiments

computational science, cosmology, experiment, Francis Bacon, in silico simulation, mathematical modelling, observation, philosophy of science, scientific method, systems biology
Excursus 014 – On Dualism

Aristotle, continuity, contraries, dialectic, dualism, Francis Bacon, metaphysics, natural philosophy, ontology, Plato
Excursus 013 – On the Typology of Theoretical Structure: Simplicus vs. Compositum

classification, complexity, conceptual analysis, explanation, methodology, philosophy of science, simplicity, systems, theoretical structure, theory
Excursus 012 – On Transmutability

alchemy, biology, Charles Darwin, essentialism, evolution, history of science, natural philosophy, species, transformation, transmutability
Excursus 011 – On the Concept of Species

Aristotle, biology, classification, essentialism, evolution, Francis Bacon, Linnaeus, natural history, species, taxonomy