Sublime

D’autres universitaires n’ont pas cédé sur le caractère utile de la philosophie aujourd’hui, comme Pierre Hadot ou Martha Nussbaum. J’ai contribué à diriger un groupe de philosophie, le London philosophy club, auquel ont participé de nombreux universitaires, partageant ainsi avec nous leur savoir, gratuitement. La philosophie dans la rue et la phil

With psychology studies replicating less than 40 percent of the time, dietary advice reversing after thirty years of dietary fat phobia, macroeconomics and financial economics (while trapped in an intricate Gargantuan patch of words) scientifically worse than astrology (this is what the reader of the Incerto has known since Fooled by Randomness),

We cannot, then, replace Plato’s philosopher-kings with scientist-kings. First, we can’t just take at face value a group’s claim to scientific authority; we have to decide whom to accept as experts. Further, there will often be a non-trivial logical gap between established scientific results and specific policy decisions; and, even 2,400 years afte

most plausible or defensible—

real arguments,

Anderson joins philosopher Angela Potochnik and others in arguing that there exists no privileged scale for explanation. In fact each scale is characterized by its own laws, concepts, and generalizations, which cannot be explained by those of any other scale.