Ebook: The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker)
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature free ebook download pdf i read this som time ago, but didnt put it on my site.…
Paper: AGAINST PHILOSOPHY: WHY PHILOSOPHY GETS NO RESPECT; A TAXONOMY of philosophy & A REVIEW of the successes and failures of 20th Century academic philosophy & RECOMMENDATIONS for the educational re-engineering of academic philosophy departments (Zak Van Straaten)
[2019-11-06: updated the spelling] http://www.abstractdelights.com/no-respect AGAINST PHILOSOPHY WHY PHILOSOPHY GETS NO RESPECT A TAXONOMY of philosophy & A REVIEW of the successes and failures of 20th Century academic philosophy This…
The low quality of psychology as a field, and how to improve science: reading material
I recently came across an interesting journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectives_on_Psychological_Science_%28journal%29 It was becus of a recent issue about the status of psychology as a scientific field. Its both distressing and very interesting…
Paper: Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain?: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension (Buccafusco & Heald)
Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2130008 The most interesting thing about this paper was the arguments put forward…
Steven Weinberg: “Against Philosophy” (from “Dreams of a Final Theory”).
Steven Weinberg “Against Philosophy” Great text. The beginning: Physicists get so much help from subjective and often vague aesthetic judgments that it might be expected that we would be helped…
Paper: “Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010068 The hypothesised Hierarchy of the Sciences (henceforth HoS) is reflected inmany social and organizational features of academic life. When 222 scholars rated their perception of similarity between…
Foot Voting, Federalism, and Political Freedom (Ilya Somin)
Foot Voting, Federalism, and Political Freedom PDF Just as foot voting can be expanded all the way down to the local level, there is also a strong case…
Art Jensen’s 1969 article: How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?
How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement? pdf I was curious to read this article becus of all the bad things ive heard about it. however, it…
Conversation with Miao about guidance, selection of students, epistemology of getting rid of bad meme complexes
[11:22:42] The Midget - Miao: Who the fuck is Isstsidwmnh? [11:23:09] The Midget - Miao: [05:52:19] Isstsidwmnh: We have no capacity to falsify the existence of reality. That does not…
Another case of someone who intuited the modal fallacy early on?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore/#2 So, on the face of it, this thesis has here been inferred from Leibniz’ Law. Moore observes, however, that the step from (1) to (2) is invalid; it confuses…