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Reflection on Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (part 2)1 comment

Ken Long wrote 2 weeks ago: Thomas Kuhn’s influential book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” ignited a firestorm o … more →

Tags: Education, Management, Planning, Research, Björn Lomborg, ClimateGate, Economics, Global Warming, Michael Polanyi

Escape's End, or: Philosophy and the Art of Historiography Maintenance

Will Thomas wrote 3 months ago: This book makes no pretense of giving the world a new theory of the intellectual operations.  Its cl … more →

Tags: History as Anti-Philosophy, Steven Shapin, Bruno Latour, Peter Galison, Harry Collins, Jed Buchwald, Thomas Kuhn, Andrew Pickering, Lorraine Daston

More is Different

dancull wrote 3 months ago: This is the Philosophy Section.... I didn't work here often, but, I liked to study here... Lovely de … more →

Tags: Conservation, Library, History of Science, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Phillip Anderson, birthday paradox

The Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009 awarded to Ian Hacking

versouk wrote 4 months ago: The Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2009 for outstanding scholarly work in the arts and hum … more →

Tags: Ian Hacking

There is something wrong about being right

burçak wrote 5 months ago: Inconsistency is quite costly if you are working as a constructer; of a building, of a theory, of a … more →

Tags: Flux, Heraclitus, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Buddhism, anatta, Annicca

Vakit öldürmek -ten

burçak wrote 5 months ago: [...]hayır sorun meseleleri algılayışımın istikrarsız oluşuydu ve kolayca değiştirilebilirdi.[...] İ … more →

Tags: Vakit Öldürmek, Epistemolojik anarşi, ask

The Great Escape

Will Thomas wrote 5 months ago: Abandoning philosophy This post is meant to be the first in a series concerning the relationship bet … more →

Tags: History as Anti-Philosophy, Bruno Latour, Peter Galison, Harry Collins, John Zammito, Andrew Pickering, Steve Woolgar, Imre Lakatos

Transportation reliability and vulnerability - a question of cost and benefit?

Jan wrote 9 months ago: This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are br … more →

Tags: Transport, Transport Economics, Transport Vulnerability, cost benefit, CBA, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Giordano Bruno, reliability, Philosophy of Science

Finally, A Feminist I Like (Part 2, End)

stickslip wrote 10 months ago: In refreshing contrast to Eve Ensler’s hysterical vagina-mongering is Camille Paglia’s s … more →

Tags: Opinions, obama, Eve Ensler, vagina monologues, Sarah Palin, Feminism, Camille Paglia, Madonna, salon.com

Blind Anger16 comments

apgaylard wrote 1 year ago: Lionel Milgrom, HOMEOPATHY AND THE NEW FUNDAMENTALISM, Slide 1 In the second part of my journey thro … more →

Tags: Homeopathy, logical fallacies, Philosophy, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Bad Philosophy, Lionel Milgrom, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Imre and Paul

Marcio Rocha Pereira wrote 1 year ago: Dark night, no moon. Very, very late. A bit of rain is falling, not enough to qet you wet, but you w … more →

Tags: language, politiks, µFiction, Imre Lakatos, Epistemology

Dawkins, ID and Forteanism5 comments

beastrabban wrote 1 year ago: Looking through this month’s copy of the Fortean Times, a monthly dedicated to reporting the w … more →

Tags: Science, Francis Bacon, Dawkins, intelligent design, Charles Fort, fortean times, Thomas Hobbes, Philip Johnson, Thomas Kuhn

Economics Education: The Indian Context9 comments

Alex M Thomas wrote 1 year ago: Economics is viewed in most schools, colleges (Management institutes as well) and universities as a … more →

Tags: India, Economics, Economic History, Economic Philosophy, Economics Education/Teaching, Thought Experiment, thomas malthus

Why we should all read Phil Mirowski1 comment

Will Thomas wrote 1 year ago: I don’t want things to get too cynical here at the History of Science Blog, so today I want to … more →

Tags: Bruno Latour, Steve Fuller, Philip Mirowski, Philip Mitcher

Hiatus7 comments

paperdreamer wrote 1 year ago: Okay so I took an extended vacation… I started the semester off trying to be careful not to ne … more →

Tags: Society, Science, Beliefs, Culture, Religion, Scientific Method, Scientists, Debate

It's Evidence Jim, But Not As We Know It!14 comments

apgaylard wrote 2 years ago: A Commentary On In Pursuit Of Evidence By Kate Chatfield RSHom I’ve wanted to critique Kate Ch … more →

Tags: Homeopathy, logical fallacies, Philosophy, Kate Chatfield, Society of Homeopaths, SOH, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos

Media device in hand

Mr. Random wrote 2 years ago: Media device in hand, I go out and record. I come back and plug it into the computer. Upload. Re-exi … more →

Tags: commodore 64, Free Lunch, Recording, screen reality, Timothy Leary, Truth


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