Recently, Andrei Mirovan suggested to me an interesting paper by Danny Frederick called “Truth Cannot Sensibly Be Our Epistemic Aim”. (Link) Danny passed away about…
Author: Bruce Nielson
What responsibility do the creators of a TV series or movie have to be faithful to the original source material? What risks are involved with…
In this episode, Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he…
In this video upload available on Spotify (we’ll try this once and see how it’s received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode…
Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…
By Bruce Nielson Full Presentation Available at The Theory of Anything Podcast, Episode 41 Thomas Kuhn’s Challenge to Popper In Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of…
Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…
In my last post, I discussed how Popper scholar Danny Frederick and Physicist David Deutsch (also a Popperian) actually use the word ‘refutation’ in distinctly…
We previously discussed Popper’s own views on why there is an asymmetry between refutations and verifications. But this didn’t really answer my question entirely. If,…
In a previous post, I mentioned a partial resolution to Penrose’s challenge to Popper’s falsifiability. But in footnote 3 I mentioned that there was still…