Curt Doolittle

Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

  • “In the past species survived HUGE climate changes by… ….[wait for it]…mig

    —“In the past species survived HUGE climate changes by…

    ….[wait for it]…migrating.” — Frank Lovell

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-14 05:49:00 UTC

  • GENETICS

    http://www.nature.com/news/ethics-taboo-genetics-1.13858TABOO GENETICS

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-12 14:04:00 UTC

  • THE SIMPLICITY OF THIS ARGUMENT

    http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/researchers/francois/RESEARCH/RESEARCH_NOTES/SCIENTIFIC_NOTES/Popper-as-an-exception-to-Bayes.htmlLOVE THE SIMPLICITY OF THIS ARGUMENT

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-28 06:30:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN ILLITERACY The cure to libertarian illiteracy is to keep up on resea

    http://www.propertarianism.com/jonathan-haidts-bibliography/CURING LIBERTARIAN ILLITERACY

    The cure to libertarian illiteracy is to keep up on research, rely on science, and not empty verbalism of continental and cosmopolitan rationalism. (See Axelrod – Cooperation. See Fukuyama – Trust. See Todd ‘Explanation of Ideology; The Invention of Europe. See Hannan – The Invention of Liberty. See Kahnemann. See RIdley. See Pinker. See Haidt: Moral Foundations; The Righteous Mind. Here is the bibliography that points to the relevant research. http://www.propertarianism.com/jonathan-haidts-bibliography/

    The libertarian spectrum is less ignorant of economics, but libertarian scientific illiteracy, moral blindness, and ideological zeal is nearly universal.

    Human moral instincts are objective and universal if we account for differences in reproductive strategies: they are prohibitions on free riding. Cultures may randomly invent different moral CODES that incorporate more or less prohibition on free riding, and accommodate the use of property in relation to family size. But the cause of moral instinct is universal: the prohibition on free riding and the requirement for contribution to production.

    That’s just science. Deal with it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 04:20:00 UTC

  • “Scientists should not aim to create true theories; they should aim to construct

    –“Scientists should not aim to create true theories; they should aim to construct theories whose models are representations of the world.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 02:42:00 UTC

  • THE SLAYING OF HEROES, GODS, AND SACRED COWS: INTUITIONISTS VERSUS SCIENTISTS It

    THE SLAYING OF HEROES, GODS, AND SACRED COWS: INTUITIONISTS VERSUS SCIENTISTS

    It is not something that people forgive you for. Thank you for. Appreciate you for. Or like you for.

    They may at some point accept the death of that which they previously held dear. And they may politely accept your insight.

    But it is quite uncommon that they embrace it.

    One can easily separate scientists seeking the truth from intuitionists seeking justification, by their reaction to the death of their paradigm.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-15 06:38:00 UTC

  • Definition of "Pseudoscience"

    DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.

  • Definition of “Pseudoscience”

    DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.

  • Definition of "Pseudoscience"

    DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.

  • Definition of “Pseudoscience”

    DEFINITION: “PSEUDOSCIENCE” pseu·do·sci·ence ˌso͞odōˈsīəns noun: pseudoscience; plural noun: pseudosciences; noun: pseudo-science; plural noun: pseudo-sciences 1. is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method. [I] use the following criteria to determine whether something is a pseudoscience: 1) One must claim it is scientific 2) Yet the method does not adhere to the scientific method. That is the minimum criteria. The following criteria serve to further falsify claims: 3) (optional) Method does not produce results it claims to. 4) (optional) Is not or cannot be stated in operational language. 5) (optional) Is not or cannot be constrained by testable correspondence with reality. By these criteria Praxeology fails as a science, as all axiomatic systems must fail as sciences. However, it is possible to state that we can study the science of cooperation (economics) and as such produce theories that for deductive purposes we may treat axiomatically, although the results of that deduction must still be tested by correspondence with reality, and falsified. Emergent properties must be tested empirically, and experiential properties can be tested experientially, if articulated as human actions. For these reasons human cooperation can be termed a science, and we can construct a formal grammar of cooperation. Something akin to praxeology can be constructed as a formal logic of cooperation, but it will, as all axiomatic systems must be, constrained by correspondence with reality.