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Laying Down the Law
07/12/18
The New York Times has just run a perverse item about the origin of laws of nature. The article is a muddle in more ways than I can count.
The author, Dennis Overbye, quotes some physicists as proposing that there might be some underlying random context in which the complex laws of nature -
Conference Call
07/12/17
The students here at UAlbany are organizing an epistemology-themed graduate student conference. As far as I can tell, they have done it autonomously. The masterminds behind the project have a clear vision of what they want to do, have tapped into extradepartmental pots of money, and have exploited t -
Second annual bulletpoint year in review
07/12/16
At the end of 2006, I summarized the year by aggregating the first sentence from the first post of each month. Now, as Janet notes, it's a tradition.
For 2006, the conclusion of the analysis was that "I seem to be concerned with logic, pragmatism, random bits of pop culture, my -
Working retail
07/12/03
I've been thinking about the distinction between retail and wholesale arguments in philosophy of science. A retail argument is about a specific theory, specific kinds of entity, or a specific practice. A wholesale argument promises a conclusion about all or most of science. Wholesale arguments
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