Against Method

2 posts

Defending philosophy of science

Mar 24, 2021 2 min read

From Carl Bergstrom's Twitter thread about a new book called How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens: The Iron Rule from the book is, in Bergstrom's retelling, "n…

The rationalists' eclipse

Dec 27, 2019 4 min read

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The annular solar eclipse over South India on December 26 provided sufficient cause for casual and/or inchoate rationalism to make a rare public appearance – rarer than the average person who had deci…