One of the questions that have plagued my insomniac nights over the past decade or so is what makes something interesting. There are many proposals.…
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Published 5 May 2023
Category: Theories
Published 31 Oct 2019
My talk online
I recently gave a fuller version of my talk “Comprehension as Compression”, and I placed the slideshow on Slideshare. You may also download the PDF:
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Published 27 Jun 2019
A talk on understanding
I will be presenting this one at ISHPSSSB in Oslo in a couple of weeks. Comments and objections received with the usual ill grace…
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Published 1 Jan 2018
50 words for snow 7: taxing attacks on taxa
We should consider in each case what Question it is that is proposed, and what answer to it would, in the instance before us, be…
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Published 11 Dec 2017
50 words for snow 6: constructing phenomena
Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena There is a naive…
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Published 12 Apr 2014
Closet Darwinism, and definitions
Every so often, somebody makes the case that “Darwinism”, “Darwinist” and “Darwinian”, being the generic noun, the individual term, and the adjective of Darwin’s name…
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