Towards the end of the episode, I brought up MacIntyre's thesis for chapter 8, "The Character of Generalizations in Social Science," that the findings of a science like sociology can't be scientific in the way that those in physics are. Now, laws in physics may be probabilistic, but they are so in a precise way, because you know where the imprecision is coming from or at least Continue Reading …
In Praise of Nigel Warburton
A few months back in response to a blog post where I lauded our podcast over/against other philosophy podcasts, Jon recommended Philosophy Bites, Little Atoms, and Philosophy: The Classics, among others. Two of these have in common that Nigel Warburton is involved, which is a very good thing. Warburton is a Philosopher and scholar of the history of Philosophy at The Open Continue Reading …