Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Monday, 18 March 2013

Eliminating Eliminativism

The Maverick Philosopher down among the eliminativists.

I have to confess that, as someone who was never formally trained in philosophy, I can't even begin to see how eliminativism can address the points that Bill Vallicella raises here, along with the ones Feser investigates in his series of posts on Rosenberg's book.

Saturday, 9 March 2013

Barry Mazur on Evidence

Brandon Watson over at Siris puts up a link to a very interesting article by Harvard mathematician, Barry Mazur, on the concept of "Evidence" in mathematics and science.