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Experiment in Science
We noted that observation is a step beyond merely seeing or responding to our senses. It is a conscious...
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ACIDs (Ambiguous Cues; Incompatible Dos): What eats at us when something does
Last week I argued that we need names for the generic tough judgment calls we all deal with. I...
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Observation
In our efforts to understand natural phenomena, science divides the world of experience into specific domains which are then...
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Exaptation: The loose link between representation and function
I’m a musician. I’ll admit that when I was a teen, I got into it as a way to...
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The EU Constitution: The Cart before the Horse?
“I never feel so European as when I am in a cathedral” (Robert Shuman) While the signing of the...
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Europeans from Venus, Americans from Beyond the Stars?
Neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan, originator of the popular slogan and rather naïve caricature “Americans from Mars, Europeans from Venus”,...
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Two Meanings of Why
In ancient science, which drew analogies between the behavior of living entities and that of nature, there was the...
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Floating For-ness: Under a Firm Mantle of Function, Molten Motives Churn
You’re in love, or so you think. You certainly feel in love, but now that you’ve been run through...
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Zipslide Errors: Confusing the nature of past and future
Loosely speaking, time is like zipping up a very long zipper. The future is open; the past is closed....
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Explanations in Science
What does one mean by the term explanation? This is a very complex question in the philosophy of science....