The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2013 Edition)

https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/win2013/entries/incommensurability/

it became possible for scientists to make and understand certain new statements only after a particular theory had been introduced (in the older vocabulary the new sentences are n

William James : The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher

https://www.general-anaesthesia.com/misc/nitrous-philosophy.html

century, skeptical scientists found his interest in exotic mental phenomena misguided, if not reckless. Religious believers tend to resent the comparison of intoxication to religi

The Hedonistic Imperative : Objections (Chapter 4)

https://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedon4.htm

of chemicals. Natural scientists, no less than humanists, can easily fall into the same trap. On the assumption that all conscious experience - "what-it's-like-ness" - is identica
Objections to the abolitionist project

Healthier, Happier and Longer Life?

https://www.supercentenarian.com/archive/compress.html

is not clear. But scientists know that moderate alcohol intake reduces blood clotting and blood pressure while raising good HDL cholesterol, thus improving the overall cholesterol

Gerd Gigerenzer

http://statlit.org/Gigerenzer.htm

many other behavioral scientists under very close scrutiny. Gigerenzer's main thrust is that humans did not evolve in the psychology laboratory, with good command of probability t

Los Angeles Future Salon - Overview

https://www.accelerationwatch.com/reading_group.html

scales. Many scientists now believe that successive generations of computational systems are becoming human-independent ("autonomous") at an ever faster pace each year,

Immanuel Kant

https://friesian.com/kant.htm

featured talking-head scientists, like Michio Kaku . We see similar falsehoods, also seconded by Michio Kaku, on the Science Channel show, How the Universe Works , "Alien Galaxies

Peak Experiences

https://www.biopsychiatry.com/bgcharlton/peak.html

with those of the great scientists. Darwin spent twenty years musing and gathering evidence of evolution by natural selection before he was stampeded into publication by Alfred Wa
what is the significance of peak experiences?

Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete

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

comes from social scientists who have undermined the privileged status of canonical ways of knowing through their studies of scientific and mathematical practice. They show us how

Arguments concerning Naturalism

http://newdualism.org/papers/D.Synnestvedt/naturalism.htm

or set of methods. Scientists prefer to work with things that can be physically observed, counted, measured, controlled in some manner, and duplicated. Not all phenomena occur und

ANCIENT EGYPT : The rise of Alexandro-Egyptian Hellenism and Hermetism

http://www.sofiatopia.org/maat/hermes2.htm

premises to the Greek scientists and their "theoria" (unknown to native Egyptians). The Ptolemaic Greeks interacted with an Egyptian elite which was highly cultured, sel
The Memphis Theology : fugal monotheism, creative command and panentheism in Ancient Egypt

Domain analysis (IEKO)

https://www.isko.org/cyclo/domain_analysis.htm

than with information scientists representing different specialties (or teams of people with different subject degrees in addition to a degree in information science). In other wo
The domain-analytic approach to knowledge organization (KO) (and to the broader field of library and information science, LIS) is outlined. The article reviews the discussions and

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