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Link A vested interest in palimpsest
The English language contains certain meaning-rich words that command attention and stir controversy. “Paradigm,” for instance: When Thomas Kuhn used it in 1966 to describe accepted scientific theories, and gave…

December 20 2012, 3:45am | Comments
Link Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes…
Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other…

July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments
Link Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Link Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About
Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks…

June 15 2012, 5:29am | Comments
Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between… Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems.…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Link What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
“Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no…

May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments
Link Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade
A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought…

May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments
Link The Trouble with Scientism
The conflict between the Naturwissenschaften and the Geisteswissenschaften goes back at least two centuries, and became intensified as ambitious, sometimes impatient researchers proposed to introduce natural scientific concepts and methods…

May 17 2012, 3:42am | Comments
Link A challenge to God-guided mutations
The renowned philosopher of science Elliott Sober has, in recent weeks, given a talk and written a paper that both make the same points: Evolution is totally silent on the…

May 17 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Link What is the biological equivalent of discovering the…
We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human…

March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments
Twitter Links The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values
The most influential contribution of the Enlightenment to modern thought, after its transformation of religious toleration from a negative to a positive value, was…

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Twitter Links Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A…

February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Twitter Links “The Shannon and Weaver Model”
The genius of Shanon’s original paper from 1948 and its subsequent popularization by Weaver lies in many things, among them, their having formulated a…

February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments
Twitter Links It's time for science to move on from materialism
Today we live in the 21st century, and it seems that we are still stuck with this narrow and rigid view of the things.…

January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments
Twitter Links Rereading Darwin
The Dangers of Extrapolation (“Much light will be thrown on the origin of man.” Two centuries before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of…

January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments
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August 12 2011, 7:50am | Comments
Link The truth is in there
“I had all these ideas,” he said, speaking slowly and searchingly, like someone looking back on life and trying to figure out where it all went wrong. “I don’t know…

June 16 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Link Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why…
Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments
Link The Limits of Science
Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration…

September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments
Link Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'
The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men…

August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments
Portfolio audio essay : On Pharaohs, Cults and Parasitism (The Condition of Division)

May 24 2010, 10:29am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First…

May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments
Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments
Link Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm -…
...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in…

April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

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