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Who is a ‘Scientist’? (Part 2: Mathematical Platonism)
You might be pleased to read that for this post, for this one delicious interval, I will not be writing about religious beliefs. To continue my previous comments about whom we might deem to be a...
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Haack’s Scientism Mistake: Popper and Demarcation (1 of 2)
In this post and the one to follow, I will be criticizing Susan Haack’s 2009 paper “Six Signs of Scientism” which recently appeared as a new chapter in the second edition of her book “Putting...
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Haack’s Scientism Mistake: Popper and Method (2 of 2)
This is the second of two posts where I critique Susan Haack’s 2009 paper “Six Signs of Scientism” which recently appeared as a new chapter in the second edition of her book “Putting Philosophy to...
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Eddington’s Selective Subjectivism (Part 2: Unobservables)
This is the second part of a series exploring Arthur Eddington’s philosophy of science. The first part can be found here. ——————————– After making the case for a priori methods in physics as a way of...
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Who is a ‘Scientist’? (Part 3: Whewell’s Word)
In the previous two posts in this series, I detailed what I considered to a valuable methodology for investigating the world, and (for want of a better term) dubbed those who hold these views to be...
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Eddington’s Selective Subjectivism (Part 3: Scope of Epistomology)
This is the third part in a series where I attempt to understand Arthur Eddington’s ‘Philosophy of the Physical Sciences‘, written in 1938. My interest in this book is twofold. Firstly, I’m curious to...
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Eddington’s Selective Subjectivism (Part 4: Relativity Theory)
Eddington aim for the fifth chapter of his 1938 ‘Philosophy of the Physical Sciences‘ was to show that Einstein’s General Relativity presents an example of how epistemological methods can offer...
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Eddington’s Selective Subjectivism (Part 5: Quantum Theory)
It might be useful at this point for me to reiterate Eddington’s view of post-classical physics. He though that modern physics was not merely another step in the empirical program – an attempt to find...
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Miraculous Knowledge – the “Scientific Miracles” of the Quran
Speaking at the Oxford Union on 11th Feb 2011, Dr Zakir Naik addressed the audience via satellite link from his television network, ‘Peace TV’, located in Dubai. Prevented from entering the UK by Home...
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Exhausted by environmentalism? Take up driving instead, says A-Level physics...
Yesterday, a colleague from the geology department described an A-Level physics question he’d noticed while invigilating earlier that week. An avid cycler and environmentalist, he was somewhat aghast...
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