[From Seth Crownover, Friend of the Podcast] If we got anything from the last episode it's that Thomas Kuhn is sort of a big deal and for good reason. His picture of scientific progress as a human rather than divine endeavor is, it seems to me, plainly true in a general sense if not in all the specifics (the world itself changes when there's a paradigm shift? Really?) That Continue Reading …
Thump Thump or Pump Pump? Fodor’s Confusion Explained.
This is an animated but polite discussion between Jerry Fodor and Elliott Sober -- very interesting, and I think I understand Fodor a little better now (i.e., motivates what I believe to be his error --- other than the fact that he's worried about problematic teleological notions like function being necessary to natural selection as a theory). And I do believe I've come up with Continue Reading …