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Books of Interest
Just discovered three books of interest. 1. Theory After ‘Theory’. Editors Elliott, Jane; Attridge, Derek. Taylor & Francis. Routledge (2011) This volume has essays by Brian Massumi, Ray Brassier,...
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Stephen Jay Gould – The Political Side of Science
“This truth involves both a menace and a promise. It shows that the evils arising from the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth, which are becoming more and more apparent as modern civilization...
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Epistemic Naturalism: Quine, Goldman, Kuhn, and Brassier
“Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.” - W.V. Quine Broadly speaking the Analytical tradition in philosophy can be characterized by an emphasis on clarity and formal logic and analysis of...
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Stephen Hawking: Science vs. Philosophy?
“The strolls of a sceptic through the debris of culture—rubble and dust as far as the eye can see. The wanderer has found everything already in ruins, furrowed down and across by the plough of...
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+1 Standard Model: Experiments Deliver a Death Blow to Supersymmetry?
Cambridge scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature. The result is very damaging to new theories like the...
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Machinic Life: The Replicants are (among) Us
“‘Organisms are resilient patterns in a turbulent flow— patterns in an energy flow.’ - Carl Woese, Noble Prize winner “I believe that I have somewhere said (but cannot find the passage) that the...
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Heroes of Science: Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi, was one of the prodigies of the early seventeenth century. He was born in 1592 in Provence, went to college at Digne, and by the age of sixteen was lecturing there. After studying...
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Emergence of Scientific Culture
Just started reading Stephen Gaukroger’s The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685. This is the first in a projected series of works that will trace the...
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Heroes of Science: Arthur Galston
In his early research the biologist, Arthur Galston experimented with a plant growth regulator, triiodobenzoic acid, and found that it could induce soybeans to flower and grow more rapidly. However, he...
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History, Cosmology, and Philosophy
Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe...
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Plasma Research at the University of Missouri
Ever wonder how stupid our government is? I do all the time. Take plasma fusion for instance. The science underpinning much of fusion energy research is plasma physics. Plasmas—the fourth state of...
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