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themultidisciplinarian.com
NASA reports that ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening. As with earlier posts on popular miscarriages of science, I look at climate science through the lens of the 20th century historians of science and philosophers of science and conclude that climate science is epistemically thin. To elaborate a bit,... |
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historyofknowledge.net
Examines the Sovietization of science and the history of academic virtues in post-World War II Soviet-dominated Poland. |
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ebuchman.github.io
Last year I read F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation back to back. Both published in 1944, these great works of political economics were attempts by their authors to grapple with the collapse of western civilization into the fascist totalitarianism of the Second World War. For Hayek, a classical liberal, totalitarian tragedy follows inevitably from the authoritarianism of State Socialism. For Polanyi, who was more of an economic sociologist, the fascism of WWII followed inevitably from the dehumanizing forces of the preceding century of Market Capitalism. |
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analog-antiquarian.net
[AI summary] This chapter explores the legacy of ancient knowledge, focusing on figures like Claudius Ptolemy and the transmission of their works through history. It discusses the decline of classical learning after the fall of Rome, the role of Islamic scholars in preserving and expanding ancient texts, and the eventual rediscovery of these works in medieval Europe. The chapter also touches on the controversies surrounding Pythagoras and the broader philosophical debates about the limits of ancient wisdom versus modern scientific inquiry. |
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