Alexander Bird: Knowledge-first philosophy of science 主讲人 Alexander Bird ( University of Cambridge ) 主持人 王球 (复旦大学哲学学院) 与谈人 刘闯 (复旦大学哲学学院) 王聚(复旦大学哲学学院) 张明君(复旦大学哲学学院) 时间 202...
PHILOSOPHYOFMATHEMATICS ‘PhilosophyofMathematicsiswritteninalivelyandaccessiblestyle.Itusesawealthofstimulating examples,andcoversawidevarietyoftopicsinthephilosophyofmathematics,includingsomenewand littleexploredquestions.’ AlexanderBird,UniversityofEdinburgh PhilosophyofMathematicstacklesimportantnewaswellasenduring...
Aided by a young professor who had studied Christian Wolff, a systematizer of rationalist philosophy, and who was also an enthusiast for the science of Sir Isaac Newton, Kant began reading the work of the English physicist and, in 1744, started his first book, Gedanken von der wahren ...
ScienceThe third volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's Fundamentals of Philosophy series, Philosophy of Science is an engaging and accessible introduction to the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science.Bird, AlexanderMcGill-Queen's University Press...
Confer Matt Clancy’s behemoth paper, “Returns to Science in the Presence of Technological Risk” for a more rigorous take on the health and income risks and the benefits of science. But the greatest worry of all is AI alignment, that is, whether eventually we can make technologies that ...
Africa,but is it scienceAGW Viewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops should be heavily restricted as GMOs reaffirms need to revamp Europe’s antiquated biotech regulations — Genetic Literacy Project viaViewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops...
(selected by a variety of people over the long-running shows) is often diegetically- linked even when it is not strictly diegetic; Andrew Bird’s ‘Pulaski at Night’ ,with its refrain of “Chicago, city of light” plays over Piper’s realization that she is being transported to Chicago ...
To glance at the philosophy of mind, the two long essays go with such shorter entries as actions, animal souls, anomalous monism, apperception, brain in a vat, the bundle theory of the self, cognitive science, and dualism. That is but a very small start. I have now said something of ...
Alexander Bird and Emma Tobin. Natural kinds. In Edward N. Zalta, editor, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring 2009. URL http://plato.stanford.edu/ archives/spr2009/entries/natural-kinds/. C.D. Broad. The relation between induction and probability—(part II). Mind, 29(113):11...
Likelihoodism is the view that the degree of evidential support should be analysed and measured in terms of likelihoods alone. The paper considers and resp