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Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
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Shane Parrish • What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
as a rational process,
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
This, after all, is the scientist’s calling: to imagine or to do what no one has done before.
Giorgio Parisi • In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science
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(most famously, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom
Jordan Ellenberg • How Not to Be Wrong
We cannot, then, replace Plato’s philosopher-kings with scientist-kings. First, we can’t just take at face value a group’s claim to scientific authority; we have to decide whom to accept as experts. Further, there will often be a non-trivial logical gap between established scientific results and specific policy decisions; and, even 2,400 years afte
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Meanwhile, in the other camp, public philosophers such as Alain de Botton have sometimes risked derision to publish books or establish institutions designed to take a dry and analytical field back to its humanitarian roots. They have dared to remind us how the great thinkers of history might help us navigate our modern world contentedly and with mi
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