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• Some More Thoughts on ABC’s Visitors

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 112
  So ABC’s “V” was on again tonight.  I enjoyed it.  It lacked the same punch as the first episode but I still liked it.  It seems a little hurried to me.  Maybe there are too many commercials?  I’ve seen other hour long shows that seemed to really carry a narrative so I know its possible.  I can’t put ...
  1 day ago

• David Stove and the Plato cult

  
  Depressed Metabolism — Authority: 395
  David Stove’s book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies is a remarkable collection of essays. As a staunch positivist ,the author is not impressed with most of what constitutes “philosophy” (or the quality of our thinking in general). As Stove laments in the preface, “there is something fearfully ...
  4 days ago

• The Suborning of Science

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 430
  Modern Science Takes On The Garb of the Alchemist The Scientist magazine carried an article in its most recent edition entitled " Promises, Promises ." No, it was not bemoaning the verbal legerdemain of a febrile politician on the hustings. It was commenting on the growing tendency of the science establishment ...
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• Essay Mythologizing: Exploring the Unknown

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  I write. With no end in sight. I simply type, but I never know if I am right. I just feel compelled to type; to write; to set things right. When your modus operandi is negative empiricism --you prefer falsification over confirmation-- the writing life is full of life (hat tip to Dave Lull); its the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Economics Nobel

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 581
  For the first time ever, the Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to a woman, Elinor Ostrom (jointly with Oliver E. Williamson). John Quiggin, writing in Crikey today [where incidentally, he throws a sop to the pedants by pointing out that it isnt actually a Nobel Prize] discusses Ostrom’s contribution to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nobel Prizes

  
  Will Wilkinson — Authority: 564
  As a lapsed member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics , I’m extremely pleased by this year’s awards to Oliver Williamson and Lin Ostrom. The message I would like to believe the Nobel committee is sending is that the study of real institutions and organizations has been undervalued, ...
  4 weeks ago

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