Increments
Science, Philosophy, Epistemology, Mayhem
Displaying 3 items of Increments with the tag "certainty".
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#75 - The Problem of Induction, Relitigated (w/ Tamler Sommers)
October 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 41 mins
belief, certainty, deduction, induction, justification, logic, popper
When Very Bad Wizards meets Very Culty Popperians. Famed philosopher, podcaster, and Kant-hater Tamler Sommers joins the boys for a spirited disagreement over Popper, and whether he solved the Problem of Induction.
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#74 - Disagreeing about Belief, Probability, and Truth (w/ David Deutsch)
October 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 32 mins
belief, certainty, epistemology, mathematics, probability, statistics, truth
We talk with David Deutsch about whether the concept of belief is a useful lens on human cognition, when probability and statistics are actually useful, and whether he disagrees with Karl Popper about the truth.
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#56 - Ask Us Anything IV: Certainty, Emergence, and Popperian Imperatives
November 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
ask-us-anything, belief, certainty, confidence, emergence, moral imperatives
Perhaps you thought, in your infinite ignorance, that the release of the previous episode marked the end of the age of the AMA! But nay: the age of the AMA has just begun!