June 22, 2009
Science and engineering are inseparable domains of thought and action, linked by a shared language of mass and energy, molecules and thermodynamics, physical systems and physical law. This shared language makes communication deceptively easy — easy, because scientists and engineers can see every detail in the same way; deceptive, because they see these details in [...]
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November 21, 2008
Yesterday was World Philosophy Day (as proclaimed by UNESCO), and the celebration continues today in Palermo. This prompts me to consider what I most like about the views of Karl Popper, the scientists’ favorite philosopher of science.
Popper discusses this in his essay, “Evolutionary Epistemology”, in which he argues that all knowledge develops from an evolutionary [...]
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