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Self-knowledge and science as art [Ignace Haaz]

https://www.dogma.lu/txt/HaazSelfKnowledge.htm

of “the Human Sciences” Geisteswissenschaften , as opposed to “Science of Nature” Naturwissenschaften. The study of these human sciences incites us to adop

Real-World Economics Review

https://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/

Am. School of Social Sciences Jacques Sapir , France, E cole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Peter Soderbaum , Sweden, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Tech

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals by Murray N. Rothbard

https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard156.html

history and the social sciences went to Germany, the home of the PhD degree, to obtain their doctorates. Almost to a man, they returned to the United States to teach in colleges a

Liberal Arts Colleges

http://www.rbs0.com/college.htm

from the "arcane sciences". But wait! The classical definition of liberal education included both physics, chemistry, and mathematics. (One can, for example, earn a
liberal arts colleges as preparation for a career in science or engineering

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

https://elizier.neocities.org/

of the mathematics and sciences underlying them . . . that it turns out that just reading through a massive brain-dump full of problems in philosophy and science can, yes, be surp

Eric Schwitzgebel - Home Page

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/

and the Cognitive Sciences , 6, 107-113.  (For further thoughts in response to an exchange with Dennett, see here .) "Descartes Inverted" (2007), from Describing Inner Experi

A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future

http://papert.org/articles/ACritiqueofTechnocentrism.html

from those of other sciences such as educational psychology. To clarify this need, I will take an example from my own work. People have asked, "What is the effect of Logo on learn

The Forever Failures of the Cult of Self Improvement — Frogesay

https://frogesay.neocities.org/articles/2021-05/the-forever-failures-of-the-cult-of-self-improvement

of the most notorious sciences, where studies are rarely replicated and any number of lifestyle choices can make the results of a study meaningless as a result of these externalit
The world of self-improvement is cultish and ultimately stupid.

Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits

http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html

similar goals. Social sciences strive to induce truths that would apply to any kind of person anywhere in the universe, but this is not always possible because humans know of only

Biology as Dogma

https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/89BRage.html

that biology, like all sciences, should not be treated as dogma. But what it shows most of all is that biology is both taught and treated as dogma by biologists. In saying this, w
Review of Harold Hillman, Letter to Students of Biology of the Twenty First Century, reviewed by Brian Martin in The Age Monthly Review, 1989

1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Defence of Poetry

https://www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1821_shelley.html

of the grosser sciences and that application of analytical reasoning to the aberrations of society, which it is now attempted to exalt over the direct expression of the inventive

Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"

https://victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/signs/signs1.html

Metaphysical and Moral Sciences are falling into decay, while the Physical are engrossing, every day, more respect and attention. In most of the European nations there is now no s


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