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Episode 89: Tradition as a Source of Knowledge: Popper vs. Chesterton
Season 1 Episode 89
This week we discuss the book Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (1908), perhaps the most famous defense of the Christian tradition. We contrast this with …
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 88: The Myth of the Objective
Season 1 Episode 88
Here Bruce reflects on AI researcher Kenneth Stanley’s assertion that setting specific, measurable goals may actually hinder discovery and innovation…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 87: Is the Universal Explainer Hypothesis Falsifiable?
Season 1 Episode 87
Is the universal explainer hypothesis falsifiable? How does the concept of universality relate to human minds? Is anything truly beyond human compreh…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 86: Fuzzy Categories, Essentialism, and Epistemology (Hofstadter Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 86
How do humans form 'fuzzy categories'? How does this all relate to essentialism? Is essentialism false? Or is it partially true? And how does this al…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 85: Critical Rationalism and Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 83
This is the first of our two part series (that may or may not be released back-to-back) where Bruce delves into the work Douglas Hofstadter, specific…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 84: Are Video Games Harmful to Children?
Season 1 Episode 84
Here we discuss a 1992 interview with David Deutsch where he makes the case that video games are inherently educational, not addictive, and that chil…
2 years ago
Episode 83: Popper's Second Axis (aka Bruce's Epistemology?)
Season 1 Episode 83
Bruce summarizes his (unique?) understanding of Karl Popper’s epistemology that (possibly?) straddles the line between orthodox and unorthodox and is…
2 years ago
Episode 82: Popper's Ratchet
Season 1 Episode 82
In an episode that may (or may not) be his magnum opus, Bruce introduces his term for Karl Popper’s idea that you are only allowed to solve problems …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 81: Easy to Varyness vs Ad Hocness
Season 1 Episode 81
Bruce sympathetically critiques David Deutsch’s concept of “easy to varyness” as a way to judge our explanations.
Are our best theories about realit…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 80: Knowledge vs. Simul-Knowledge
Season 1 Episode 79
Bruce wraps up his epic 6 part series on knowledge and the 'two sources hypothesis' (i.e. Deutsch's theory that all 'knowledge' comes from only two s…
2 years, 2 months ago