[Philip_E._Tetlock]_Expert_Political_Judgment_How(Bookos.org) Very interesting book! ---- Game Theorists. The rivalry between Sherlock Holmes and the evil genius Professor Moriarty illustrates how indeterminacy can arise as a natural by-product of rational agents…
This was interesting. A_Plea_for_Science_Studies_Philip_Kitcher
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…
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…
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…
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” 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…
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 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:…
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…