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hoi polloi
Robert K. Merton, in Science Technology and Society in XVII Century England makes the point that Reformation,…
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Deus Sive Natura (again)
De natura et origine mentis Dove si dice dell’ebreo maledetto In Spinoza leggo che una successione…
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Dirac on religion
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we…
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Zellini – Gnomon
An interesting interview to Paolo Zellini. See also this Hermann Weyl “Über die neue Grundlagenkrise der…
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Psychohistory: Bisher hat die Wissenschaft ihre Zyklopen-Bauten noch nicht gebaut
Asimov idea of Psychohistory needs being framed in the spirit of Marx grand project or Nietzsche…
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Human and Horses
Human are not horses, says MIT economist Kenneth Rogoff and King Ludd is still dead. But…
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Evolutionary Epistemology
Kant was the systematizer of Isaac Newton Physics’ implicit epistemology. The immediate discovery of Non-Euclidean geometries…
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Apropos STEM: Stalin and Soviet mathematics
“The teaching of mathematics in our schools is a suicidal scandal. How does it go in…
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Outside the province of formal grammars
Daniel Dennet makes the point that “Darwin’s dangerous idea is that Design can emerge from mere…
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Exit from Eden: Milutin Milanković and his cycles
Milutin Milanković is a very interesting figure of mathematician. His theory of cycles of glaciers is…