Myrvold on philosophy of physics and Hawking and Mlodinow
Since Hawking and Mlodinow's book "The Grand Design" (I keeping wanting to type "The Grand Illusion") is from 2010 (the stack of new copies I saw in the Harvard bookstore must have been remainders),...
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Physics and philosophy: a civil and enlightening discussion
So, more on physics and philosophy: this discussion thread involving Wayne Myrvold, Vishnya Maudlin, and Matthew Leifer is a model of civil discussion in which it looks like mutual understanding is...
View ArticleNagel and DeLong I: Common Sense
Brad DeLong has been hammering --- perhaps even bashing --- away at Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos (Oxford, 2012). Here's a link to his latest blow. I think Nagel's wrong on several key...
View ArticleNagel and Delong II: Fallibility and Transcendence
In my first post on Brad Delong's series of criticisms of Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos I focused not on Brad's initial critcism but on a later post that seemed to be implying Nagel put too...
View ArticleDeutsch, Popper, Gelman and Shalizi, with a side of Mayo, on Bayesian ideas,...
A few years back, when I reviewed David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity for Physics Today (see also my short note on the review at this blog), I ended up spending a fair amount of time revisiting...
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