Review: Beyond the Hoax: Science and Culture (Alan Sokal)
beyond the hoax - alan sokal Much of the material is the same as in Sokal and Bricmont's earlier book. But there is some new material as well. I especially…
Review: Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology (Lilienfeld et al)
Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology - edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr. Has a good discussion of the nature of science. som interesting…
The sad state of filosofy of science regarding IQ and race?
I came across an interesting paper. Philosophy of Science That Ignores Science Race, IQ and Heritability this reminds me why i dont like filosofy students. they dont know anything about…
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…
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…
A conversation about pseudoscience, psychoanalysis, clarity of language
a conversation with "I said stupid things so i dont want my name here" [04:22:58] Isstsidwmnh: Did I tell you I read "Civilization and its Discontents" by Freud? [04:23:07] Isstsidwmnh:…
Thoughts and comments: Is psychology a science? (Paul Lutus)
http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/index.html In order to consider whether psychology is a science, we must first define our terms. It is not overarching to say that science is what separates human beings…
Einstein on operationally defining and measuring simplicity
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/ But for all that Einstein's faith in simplicity was strong, he despaired of giving a precise, formal characterization of how we assess the simplicity of a theory. In 1946…
Thoughts about SEP’s Naturalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/ The term ‘naturalism’ has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self-proclaimed…