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Episode 129: Is Probability Real?
Season 1 Episode 129
A curious Twitter exchange with David Deutsch prompts Bruce to explore what Deutsch and other critical rationalists mean when they assert that random…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 128: Induction’s Immunizing Strategy
Season 1 Episode 128
In this episode, Bruce explores his extended conversation with philosopher and inductivist Kieren, focusing on Kieren’s claim that Popper’s Critical …
4 months ago
Episode 127: Hofstadter vs Popper on Concepts
Season 1 Episode 127
Here Bruce starts with Popper’s assertion that theories are 100x more valuable than concepts and compares it to Douglas Hofstadter’s ideas on creativ…
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 126: The Concept of Concepts
Season 1 Episode 126
What is a concept? What is a theory? And was Karl Popper right when he said theories are “100 times more valuable” than concepts? But where do conjec…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 125: Our Lovecraftian Universe?
Season 1 Episode 125
This week we welcome back Micah Redding of the Christian Transhumanist podcast. We had a joyful conversation touching on religion, science fiction, a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 124: Popper's Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
Season 1 Episode 124
aka "The Popper vs Campbell Beatdown!"
At long last! The showdown you've all been waiting for! These two giants of epistemology meet in the ring and f…
5 months ago
Episode 123: Campbell vs Deutsch: Incremental vs Cosmic Significance
Bruce compares Donald Campbell’s evolutionary epistemology and David Deutsch’s ideas on infinite knowledge growth. What is knowledge growth? Is it a …
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 122: The Case Against Logical Fallacies
Season 1 Episode 122
In this shorter episode Bruce takes a deep dive into logical fallacies. How useful are logical fallacies? Does pointing out a logical fallacy help co…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 121: Beliefs
Season 1 Episode 121
In our previous episode covering Strevens' critique of Popper, we briefly touched on why Bruce believes it it a mistake for CritRats to say they don'…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 120: Popper on Trial
Season 1 Episode 120
This week Bruce puts Popper on trial. Specifically, through the lens of Michael Stevens’s book, The Knowledge Machine, which argues that science work…
5 months, 4 weeks ago