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I’m sympathetic to Horgan’s claim that there’s something rotten in the state of science, I can get on board with the idea that our scientific luminaries are a bunch of asses and buffoons, and I’m even open to the possibility that large swaths of supposed scientific activity have basically become interpretative dance.
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
the nature
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
We as scientists spend our lives channeling our curiosity in the service of certainty. Yet along the way, we increasingly embrace uncertainty and celebrate the paths toward understanding, without expecting its conclusive acquisition.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
David C. Krakauer • 1 highlight
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Policy-making does, however, often require Aristotelian phronesis, particularly the ability to recognize salient facts that require invoking the exception clause of a guiding picture.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
logic of disagreement.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Gregory Bateson in Mind and Nature.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
whether belief in God is rational.