(Ball, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. AI + Reproducibility + Peer Review = A Perfect Storm in Science Contemporary science is a juggernaut, but also multiply troubled. … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: January 2024
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #5.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the fifth installment. But you can … [continue reading]
The Internal Structure of Reading and the Internal Structure of Philosophizing.
“A Philosopher Reading,” by a follower of David Teniers the Younger, 1610-1690 (Wikimedia Commons, 2024) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Internal Structure of Reading and the Internal … [continue reading]
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #4.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the fourth installment. But you can … [continue reading]
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #3.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the third installment. But you can … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #15–Rules For Thinking.
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” by Francisco Goya (Los Caprichos, #43, 1799) The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, ten years later, after more than 350,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by … [continue reading]
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #2.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the second installment. But you can … [continue reading]