Science

Economics 2

• Economic Optimism A page on Economic Optimism, written to clarify its role inside the Economics branch.
• What Makes Economics “Dismal”? A page on What Makes Economics “Dismal”, written to clarify its role inside the Economics branch.

Epistemology 9

• Case #6 – Insatiable Loops A page on Insatiable Loops, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• Deduction: Utility and Issues A page on Deduction: Utility and Issues, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• Doxastic Voluntarism A page on Doxastic Voluntarism, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• Extraordinary Claims A page on Extraordinary Claims, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• Faith vs Science A page on Faith vs Science, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• The Abuse of “Self-Evident” A page on The Abuse of “Self-Evident”, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• What is Belief? A page on Belief, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• What is Faith? A page on Faith, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.
• ‘A Priori’ Knowledge Issues A page on ‘A Priori’ Knowledge Issues, written to clarify its role inside the Epistemology branch.

Ethics 1

• Harris’ Notion of Morality A page on Harris’ Notion of Morality, written to clarify its role inside the Ethics branch.

Humanistic Philosophies 1

• New Manifestations of Theism A page on New Manifestations of Theism, written to clarify its role inside the Humanistic Philosophies branch.

Introduction 2

• Miscellaneous Philosophers A page on Miscellaneous Philosophers, written to clarify its role inside the Introduction branch.
• Women’s Interest in Philosophy A page on Women’s Interest in Philosophy, written to clarify its role inside the Introduction branch.

Metaphysics 4

• Are Quantum Physics “Spiritual”? A page on Are Quantum Physics “Spiritual”, written to clarify its role inside the Metaphysics branch.
• Emergence A page on Emergence, written to clarify its role inside the Metaphysics branch.
• Explanations A page on Explanations, written to clarify its role inside the Metaphysics branch.
• The Principle of Sufficient Reason A page on The Principle of Sufficient Reason, written to clarify its role inside the Metaphysics branch.

Miscellany 4

• COVID19 & Science A page on COVID19 & Science, written to clarify its role inside the Miscellany branch.
• Cascading Factor Models A page on Cascading Factor Models, written to clarify its role inside the Miscellany branch.
• David Krakauer on Complexity A page on David Krakauer on Complexity, written to clarify its role inside the Miscellany branch.
• Dynamical Depth A page on Dynamical Depth, written to clarify its role inside the Miscellany branch.

Philosophers 23

• Aristotle Begin with function: what makes a knife, a friendship, or a human life good as that kind of thing?
• Baruch Spinoza Begin with emotion: what changes when anger, envy, and hope are treated as caused states to understand rather than sins to merely denounce?
• Bertrand Russell Begin with denoting: why does a sentence about 'the present king of France' reveal so much about analysis, reference, and existence?
• Charles Sanders Peirce Begin with surprise: when something unexpected happens, how do explanation, hypothesis, and testing actually get started?
• Charting Aristotle A terrain map of Aristotle, showing which themes, alignments, and tensions define the wider philosophical landscape.
• Charting Heidegger A terrain map of Heidegger, showing which themes, alignments, and tensions define the wider philosophical landscape.
• Charting Russell A terrain map of Russell, showing which themes, alignments, and tensions define the wider philosophical landscape.
• Dialoguing with Quine A guided encounter with Quine that keeps the philosopher’s voice, major claims, and main points of resistance in view.
• Edmund Husserl Begin with intentionality: what if consciousness is not a container of images, but a directed openness to things?
• Empiricists A page on Empiricism, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophers branch.
• Epicurus Begin with fear of death: how much of ordinary striving is really an attempt to bargain with finitude?
• George Berkeley Begin with the table in the room: what exactly are you claiming exists beyond the colors, shapes, resistances, and perceptions you actually encounter?
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Begin with explanation: when we say there must be some sufficient reason, how demanding is that requirement really?
• Immanuel Kant Begin with obligation: what kind of moral demand would bind even when desire, interest, and local custom push the other way?
• John Locke Begin with personal identity: what makes you the same person across change, memory, and responsibility?
• Jurgen Habermas Begin with a simple act of giving reasons: what norms are already implied when someone asks to be justified?
• Karl Marx Begin with labor: what changes once production is treated not as background economics but as the engine of social life?
• Ludwig Wittgenstein Begin with meaning: what if the urge to define a word once and for all is itself part of the trouble?
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty Begin with the body: what changes if perception is not a camera in the head but a lived relation to a world already there?
• Michel Foucault Begin with the prison: what if punishment reveals not just crime policy, but a wider logic of discipline running through modern life?
• Rationalists A page on Rationalism, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophers branch.
• René Descartes Begin with radical doubt: what, if anything, would remain if every vulnerable belief were pushed as hard as possible?
• Willard Van Orman Quine Begin with the analytic-synthetic distinction: what if the truths that seem true by meaning alone are not as insulated as philosophers hoped?

Philosophical Inquiry 2

• Common Sense Blunders A page on Common Sense Blunders, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophical Inquiry branch.
• Dialoguing with William of Ockham A guided encounter with William of Ockham that keeps the philosopher’s voice, major claims, and main points of resistance in view.

Philosophy of AI 1

• A Novel AI Thought Experiment A page on A Novel AI Thought Experiment, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of AI branch.

Philosophy of Language 2

• Thought = Language? A page on Thought = Language, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Language branch.
• What is Etymology? A page on Etymology, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Language branch.

Philosophy of Science 42

• Bimodal Distributions A page on Bimodal Distributions, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Case #1 – Intelligence & Political Leanings A page on Intelligence & Political Leanings, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Causal Chains A page on Causal Chains, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Confounding Variables A page on Confounding Variables, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Correlation Is Not Causation A page on Correlation Is Not Causation, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Correlation and Causation A page on Correlation and Causation, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Demarcation for Scientific Laws A page on Demarcation for Scientific Laws, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Elements of Research Design A page on Elements of Research Design, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Emerging Fields in Science A page on Emerging Fields in Science, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Hard vs Soft Sciences A page on Hard vs Soft Sciences, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• History as Forensic Science A page on History as Forensic Science, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Improving Science A page on Improving Science, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Inductive Density A page on Inductive Density, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Is History Science? A page on Is History Science, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Is Logic Acquired Inductively? A page on Is Logic Acquired Inductively, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Life vs Non-Life A page on Life vs Non-Life, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Methodological Naturalism A page on Methodological Naturalism, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Orthogonality A page on Orthogonality, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Overfitting in Scientific Models A page on Overfitting in Scientific Models, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• P-Value Issues A page on P-Value Issues, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Paper: Methodological Naturalism A page on Paper: Methodological Naturalism, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Philosophy of Science — Core Concepts A page on Philosophy of Science — Core Concepts, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Research Design Scenario #1 A page on Research Design Scenario #1, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Science and the Public A page on Science and the Public, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Science vs Subjectivity A page on Science vs Subjectivity, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Scientific “Observations” A page on Scientific “Observations”, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Scientism & Faith A page on Scientism & Faith, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Sorting Out Science Terms A page on Sorting Out Science Terms, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• Technology Outpaces Theory A page on Technology Outpaces Theory, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Notion of Laws A page on The Notion of Laws, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Power of Convergence A page on The Power of Convergence, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Power of Thought Experiments A page on The Power of Thought Experiments, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Problem of Induction A page on The Problem of Induction, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Use of Proxies A page on The Use of Proxies, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• The Value of Surveys A page on The Value of Surveys, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What are Pseudosciences? A page on Pseudosciences, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is Deduction? A page on Deduction, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is Etiology? A page on Etiology, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is Falsifiability? A page on Falsifiability, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is Induction? A page on Induction, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is Science? A page on Science, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.
• What is “Explanation”? A page on “Explanation”, written to clarify its role inside the Philosophy of Science branch.

Political Philosophy 1

• Political Philosophy Basics A page on Political Philosophy Basics, written to clarify its role inside the Political Philosophy branch.

Rational Thought 7

• Case #2 – Autism A page on Autism, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Categories of Questions A page on Categories of Questions, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Characteristics of Science Denial A page on Characteristics of Science Denial, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Detecting Bad Science A page on Detecting Bad Science, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Empathy Overload A page on Empathy Overload, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Integrated Critical Thinking A page on Integrated Critical Thinking, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.
• Leaving Room for Doubt A page on Leaving Room for Doubt, written to clarify its role inside the Rational Thought branch.