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Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
For Kuhn, a scientific theory is a conceptual framework, a “paradigm,” for describing a series of phenomena.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
Physicist Carlo Rovelli writes that the nature of time is so hard to characterize that it’s more accurate to call it an event rather than a structure, “more like a kiss than a stone.” All physicists will tell you the same: that time is a slippery thing appearing every day in the guise of the exacting clock, unable to yield its measures for us, “wai
... See moreSara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object: reali
... See moreChiara Marletto • The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. The purpose of this book is to give the answers that are suggested by recent discoveries and theoreti
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