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Nature of the Universe (TANSTAAFL)

Löwy Juval • Righting Software

phronesis

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

But the lesson of the past several hundred years of science is that there are things that can be figured out by formal processes, but aren’t readily accessible to immediate human thinking.

Stephen Wolfram • What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?

most plausible or defensible—

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

as the statistician George Box memorably put it, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

In the inductivist theory of scientific knowledge, observations play two roles: first, in the discovery of scientific theories, and second, in their justification.

David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality

Any social science that aims to inform (and perform) the function of a complex social organization, like a state or corporation, that enforces even somewhat impartial rules needs to ruthlessly abstract from particularities.

Suresh Naidu • In Praise of Blindspots

In some sense, scientific inquiry is thus an effort to become inhuman. Or perhaps nonhuman. Or perhaps superhuman.

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

I don’t think that there is a problem with any of the usual ways of justifying conclusions in science, philosophy or mathematics. However, it is an interesting fact that the physical universe admits processes that create knowledge about itself, and about other things too. We may reasonably try to explain this fact in the same way as we explain othe