No. The null hypothesis is that nothing is going on at all. It has nothing to do with the supernatural, and nothing to do with the 'extraordinary'. Th...
Not in the slightest. The 'point of science' is to follow the evidence, and not make a priori assumptions as to what reality ought to be like. As to t...
Oh dear someone doesn't know what a null hypothesis is, how unfortunate. No wonder you want to defend an unempirical science. You can barely get the b...
If one is committed to science being an empirical discipline, rather than an ideological one, one had better take it seriously. Alternatively, you're ...
If one understands IC as simply a negative thesis ('X cannot be explained by means of Y') then it amounts to nothing but a base statement of fallibili...
Perhaps ironically, 'irreducible complexity' is - or ought to be - the null hypothesis of all evolutionary science. That is, it ought to be the method...
Highly. It's Zizek's metaphysics without the fluff, and the way in which it triangulates Kant, Schelling, and Spinoza is just incredible. A seriously ...
To be honest I reckon that kind of language makes me read faster. Like, I'm leafing through Moynihan's PhD thesis right now (also really good), but be...
Thomas Moynihan - Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History I hadn't planned on reading this, I started just to see what it would be like and now I'm mor...
We had something similar to that in an older incarnation of the forum. It - the trash can - was a pretty horrible place filled with the most asinine c...
The posts can be recovered by other mods, just not me. I'm much too low on the food chain. Re: appeals, one of the issues is that the forum software j...
Without intending to be facetious, the posts were literal gibberish, a mix of pseudo-science and pseudo-philosophy that could lead to only confused di...
One of the more interesting turns in the literature on neoliberalism that I've noticed is a recognition of a gap between neoliberalism-as-theory and '...
Ah yes, the incredibly healthy and definitely not dying welfare state, which has not been dismantled piece by piece and is most definitely not bleedin...
Given that one of the central planks of neoliberalism is the atomization of society and the destruction of the 'social', one can only laugh at the ide...
Nobody knows. But this doesn't give you carte blanche to make things up. I could say instead that there were in fact homogenous ducks and their quacki...
Color is (for the relevant purposes here) a frequency of light. You're going to need at least some geometry (2 dimensions, at a minimum), and a time v...
Yanis Varoufakis - The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy Yanis Varoufakis - And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Eu...
It's actually really, really good. It was originally published in 2014 but it's positively prophetic when read in the light of even just 5 years onwar...
It's worth celebrating what small victories are achieved. And frankly, just seeing Ho - a walking, breathing piece of human excrement - lose his seat ...
Among my favorite bits: "Some notable names ran in the elections, including pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho, one of the most controversial politicians ...
You might enjoy some Foucault, OP. He does alot of what you say has been neglected. You'll also much in Heidegger on this theme, as Eee said. And a gr...
This is pretty cool - a recollection written by F. A. Hayek of Wittgenstein - his (second) cousin! (I had no idea!). One of the most interesting parts...
If you (Leo) get the ball rolling on a thread with some discussion from various members, we may at the very least get Prof. Pigliucci to take a read i...
(1) One of the more famous images associated with the Stoics is their tripartite division of philosophy into ethics, physics, and logic, each represen...
Hey, can we keep discussions about specific questions in their own threads? (create one if you'd like). I'd prefer that this not be too cluttered so w...
At a glance: owenership is a legal relation, and all legal relations only make sense when defined and enforced by a state; what self-respecting anarch...
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