Episteme
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Practical reason as sorcery (i): Kant reconsidered
It seems to me that the ethical problems are adequately framed by Kant when he says that…
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Il Dio dei matematici
Questa intervista al grandissimo Enrico Bombieri e’ molto profonda. A un certo punto B. dice: “Il Dio che viene…
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M. Escher, or breaking the Kantian spell
In Late Middle Age, the position of the stars in navigation maps was programmatically out of…
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Deflation of human agency
One of the premier Art Deco buildings in London, the famed Senate House (above) keeps resonating…
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Anthrax, strychnine and the fallacy of Antigone’s argument
One should feel grateful to Princeton molecular biology professor Lee Silver for this wonderful video, detailing…
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Recursion: Cortázar and Antonioni
Continuity of the Parks, by Julio Cortázar He had begun to read the novel a few…
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Software engineering & competence without knowledge
While writing software and endlessly refactoring to reach the ‘ultimate’ structure, one finds oneself often wondering…
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Popper on demarcation and the power of epicycles
Suppose you had a standard Fourier series representing an arbitrary function. Suppose now this function is…
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“Galileo was no idiot” (or “Wir werden wissen”)
What is the exact meaning of Hilbert’s famous remark that: “Galileo was no idiot. Only an…
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Community life and chipped silicon
“If you open a modern computer case and stare at the mother board, it really appears…
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