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Nomic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting.
Arché Summer School
4 tracks - contextualism and relativism, basic knowledge, methodology, foundations of logical consequence
Experimental Philosophy Society
The purpose of this society is to support, encourage, and publicize work in the area of academic philosophy known as "experimental philosophy." Experimental philosophy involves the collection of empirical data to shed light on philosophical issues.
Features: 'Philosophy’s great experiment' by David Edmonds | Prospect Magazine March 2009 issue 156
Deborah Mayo, Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge
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Ever since its origins in the seventeenth century,
if we are to believe its historians,
mathematical probability has oscillated, not to say equivocated, between two
interpretations, between saying how often a given kind of event happens, and
saying how much credence we should give a given assertion. -
In particular, if you think of probabilities as degrees-of-belief, it is
tempting, maybe even necessary, to regard Bayes's theorem as a rule for
assessing the evidential support of beliefs. For instance, let A be
"Mr. Geller is psychic" and B be "this spoon will bend without the
application of physical force." Once we've assigned p(A), p(B), and p(B|A),
we can calculate just how much more we ought to believe in Geller's psychic
powers after seeing him bend a spoon without visibly doing so. p(A) and p(B)
and sometimes even p(B|A) are, in this view, all reflections of our subjective
beliefs, before we examine the evidence. They are called the "prior
probabilities," or even just the "priors." The prize, p(A|B), is the
"posterior," and regarded as the weight we should give to a hypothesis (A) on
the strength of a given piece of evidence (B). As I said, it's hard to avoid
this interpretation if you think of probabilities as degrees-of-belief, and
there is a large, outspoken and able school of methodologists and statisticians
who insist that this is the way of thinking about probability,
scientific inference, and indeed rationality in general: the Bayesian Way.
Experimental Philosophy: Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness
One of the most exciting developments in experimental philosophy these days is the explosion of new work on intuitions about consciousness. How do people determine whether an entity is capable of having phenomenal states like feeling pain or experiencing happiness? And how do the criteria for these phenomenal states differ from those for other states like belief and desire?
Arché Methodology Project Weblog
Recent philosophy is increasingly characterized by a preoccupation with its own methods. Discussion of the legitimacy and centrality of conceptual analysis as a philosophical tool goes back to the early 20th century and has continued up until today. The question of how ‘armchair philosophy’ is possible and what role appeals to intuitions should play is a main focus of Timothy Williamson’s recent book, The Philosophy of Philosophy
The Atlantic Online | December 2008 | Pop Psychology | Virginia Postrel
These lab results should give pause not only to people who believe in efficient markets, but also to those who think we can banish bubbles simply by curbing corruption and imposing more regulation. Asset markets, it seems, suffer from irrepressible effervescence. Bubbles happen, even in the most controlled conditions.
Spark Festival
For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) to showcase their work to the public.
How to Save the World - We Need Experimenters, Not Leaders
We don't need 'leadership' or 'leaders'. What we need is experimenters.The way to create working models that work better than the dysfunctional ones we have now, in a complex system where no one is in control and no one has the answers, is to try things
PostClassic: A Truly Loopy Idea
The idea of different-length loops running at the same time and going out of phase with each other, which I wrote about in the Totalistically Tenney post, is one I've been working with for more than three decades.
Patrick N. Grim
spoke at Umich Dec 2006, working at intersection of complex systems and philosophy. Cooperation, communication, and emergent behavior.
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