History & Philosophy of Science

TagLast edit: Jan 3, 2023, 7:22 PM by Eleni Angelou

History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) encompasses the integrated study of the history and philosophy of science. It breaks down into general HPS which is concerned with questions about the nature of science and scientific development, e.g., what is a scientific law?, and HPS of individual sciences which focuses on the specific agenda of a science e.g., history and philosophy of biology.

The special nature of special relativity

adamShimiJan 9, 2023, 5:30 PM

37 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Book Review: Worlds of Flow

rememberJan 16, 2023, 8:17 PM

83 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Why wasn’t preservation with the goal of potential future revival started earlier in history?

Andy_McKenzieJan 16, 2024, 4:15 PM

31 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

My Model of Epistemology

adamShimiAug 31, 2024, 5:01 PM

37 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Empirical vs. Mathematical Joints of Nature

Elizabeth and Alex_Altair

Jun 26, 2024, 1:55 AM

35 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Compression Moves for Prediction

adamShimiSep 14, 2024, 5:51 PM

20 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimiSep 22, 2024, 4:50 PM

54 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Triangulating My Interpretation of Methods: Black Boxes by Marco J. Nathan

adamShimiOct 9, 2024, 7:13 PM

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

Why Can’t We Hypothesize After the Fact?

David UdellFeb 26, 2025, 10:41 PM

40 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Science advances one funeral at a time

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena and AE Studio

Nov 1, 2024, 11:06 PM

98 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

adamShimiMar 7, 2022, 12:01 PM

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature

adamShimiMar 14, 2022, 8:13 AM

28 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Replacing Natural Interpretations

adamShimiMar 16, 2022, 1:05 PM

19 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimiApr 7, 2022, 4:41 PM

100 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Levels of Pluralism

adamShimiJul 27, 2022, 9:35 AM

37 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Formalization as suspension of intuition

adamShimiDec 11, 2022, 3:16 PM

54 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Proof as mere strong evidence

adamShimiDec 14, 2022, 8:56 AM

28 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

What does it mean to “trust science”?

jasoncrawfordAug 16, 2023, 2:56 PM

34 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

A Social History of Truth

VaniverJul 31, 2023, 10:49 PM

64 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics

ElizabethOct 5, 2022, 10:40 PM

41 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Lost in Innovation: The Case of Phlogiston

adamShimiJan 20, 2023, 12:19 PM

19 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

The Quantum Wave Function is Related to a Philosophy Concept

Richard AragonApr 20, 2023, 3:16 AM

−11 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Origins of the Lab Mouse

Niko_McCartyJun 2, 2024, 3:40 PM

16 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(press.asimov.com)

The Many Stories of Science

amayhewApr 29, 2023, 4:49 PM

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

Neither Copernicus, Galileo, nor Kepler had proof

Meow PNov 22, 2023, 6:41 PM

4 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)

Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil

Ivan VendrovJun 8, 2024, 5:05 PM

36 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(nothinghuman.substack.com)

AI x Human Flourishing: Introducing the Cosmos Institute

Brendan McCordSep 5, 2024, 6:23 PM

14 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(cosmosinstitute.substack.com)

Let’s Design A School, Part 2.3 School as Education—The Curriculum (Phase 2, Specific)

SableMay 15, 2024, 8:58 PM

24 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

Napoleon stole the Roman Inquisition archives and investigated the Galileo case

Meow PNov 27, 2023, 9:41 AM

−3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)

Honest science is spirituality

pchvykovJul 1, 2024, 8:33 PM

−1 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Physics is Ultimately Subjective

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 14, 2023, 10:19 PM

5 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research

Nora_Ammann and particlemania

Aug 19, 2022, 5:18 PM

31 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Paradigms and Theory Choice in AI: Adaptivity, Economy and Control

particlemaniaAug 28, 2023, 10:19 PM

4 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

AI: The Philosopher’s Stone of the 21st Century

HNXOct 11, 2024, 4:55 PM

0 points

2 comments29 min readLW link

[Question] Book recommendations for the history of ML?

Eleni AngelouDec 28, 2022, 11:50 PM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Who ordered alignment’s apple?

Eleni AngelouAug 28, 2022, 4:05 AM

6 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

James Stephen BrownNov 23, 2024, 6:34 PM

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni AngelouSep 7, 2022, 5:15 PM

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Alignment’s phlogiston

Eleni AngelouAug 18, 2022, 10:27 PM

10 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

There is no royal road to alignment

Eleni AngelouSep 18, 2022, 3:33 AM

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Against the weirdness heuristic

Eleni AngelouOct 2, 2022, 7:41 PM

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Musings on Cargo Cult Consciousness

Gareth DavidsonJan 25, 2024, 11:00 PM

−13 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

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