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Spontaneous Urban Planning at the Intersection of Markets, Democracy and Science
Conference issue of C+T classical liberalismdemocracyJane JacobsscienceSpontaneous orderurban planning
The Changing Temptations of Science
A snappy read on the sociology of scientific knowledge — as things stand now. sciencesocial epistemologysociology of knowledgesociology of scientific knowledgeStephen Turner
Ignatius’ Brain: Food and Sex in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
Available at Amazon.com — Amazon.ca — Amazon.co.uk — Barnes & Noble — Indigo.ca — Indi Bound — Kobo — and last but not least, if you want to take advantage of a 30% discount (code available here), go to Rowman & Littlefield. Extract from chapter 8 — Olga Colbert a confederacy of duncesaddictionBoethiusEmbodied cognitionJohn Kennedy Tooleneuroscienceolga…
Organizational Decisions in the Lab
The eleventh in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Massimo Egidi “Bounded Rationality” is a label that gathers the most important advancements of Herbert Simon’s scientific production. His fundamental contributions to cognitive psychology and to the theory of problem solving were developed jointly, each…
C+T Vancouver: Programme
A fully detailed programme is now available. classical liberalismcosmos & taxisdemocracysciencespontaneous ordersurban planning
C+T Vancouver: Conference Lineup
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Bertrand Russell: Science and philosophy
My chum and Russell scholar par excellence has this piece in the TLS. As Wittgenstein sums up Russell’s insight, “Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”. Something similar might be said of science as well. Analytic philosophyAndrew Irvinebertrand russellLiberalismphilosophical logicPhilosophyscience
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THE SOURCE OF THE ANTINOMY The general source of the antinomy is not to be found, as is sometimes alleged, in the nature of the subject, man, the culture member who practices science but needs myths. Such an anthropology is in the last analysis incoherent because it requires two sorts of men, scientists who observe…
Scientism and its Discontents
Here’s an open access book by the most excellent and always provocative Susan Haack. Charles Sanders PeirceconstructivismFriedrich HayeknaturalismPhilosophyquineregressive leftscienceScientismsusan haack
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