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Showing posts with label philosophy of science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy of science. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 March 2022

Self-floating books

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Let's imagine there's a stack of books floating in mid-air. There appears to be no reason for it.  But suppose someone says we can e...
Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Education and Scientism

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It is generally thought that education is an unadulterated good thing.  However, I have reservations.  It seems to me that one of the detrac...
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Tuesday, 1 October 2019

The Limits of Science

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Why can't science tell us why the Universe exists and why physical laws take on the form they do? Here's an analogy. Consider th...
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Thursday, 22 March 2018

Underdetermination of Scientific Theory

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How do we make sense of change in the world? We need to dream up a theory that explains what we see. We can understand why the black do...
Monday, 27 March 2017

What philosophical questions does science answer?

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Just reading the following recently published article: Mind, Matter And Materialism Near the beginning the author says: "Questions t...
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Saturday, 28 February 2015

Do scientific explanations actually explain?

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To provide a scientific explanation of a given phenomenon is to show how it is ultimately derived from physical laws. Sometimes physical law...
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Thursday, 15 May 2014

Why Philosophy is important

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If an individual never thinks philosophically, never questions his existence, what the world is about, what justifies certain moral stances ...
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