Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

October 23, 2010
by peter.taylor
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What do you do as a philosopher of science if you conclude that researchers have overlooked a significant issue for 100 years?

What do you do as a philosopher of science if you conclude that researchers have overlooked a significant issue for 100 years? What does philosophy of science prescribe? (I’ll reveal at the end something significant I think has been overlooked, … Continue reading

October 12, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Imagination and the psychology of agents (as seen or hidden in social studies of science)

I would affirm that all human activity is imaginative, that is, the result of a labor process that grows out of the laborer’s imagination. Agents assess, not necessarily explicitly, the practical constraints and facilitations of possible actions in advance of … Continue reading

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