Posted inFun Philosophy
Ad Hominem, My Sweet
I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…
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Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!
It's probably gone by now, but for a little while my new book, Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, was "#1 New Release in Epistemology" then "#1 New…
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Melody May Be A Learned Response?
Received this email from reader Don Siegel: Greetings. Vis a vis how music is getting worse---I'm a prof at Syr. Univ (Earth Sciences) but also lately, a solo jazz guitarist…
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A Brief Explanation Of Occam’s Razor
We're interested in whether some proposition Y is true. One explanation, perhaps causal or deterministic, or even only probabilistic, is X. Thus, Pr(Y | X) is high or equals 1.…
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This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIveP1SEZjs Dall'Abaco concerto The week of the worst that was, in aural form, featuring the music of Giuseppe Torelli and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. Torelli trumpet concerto Because they can, and…
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Do People Really Believe In Chance & The Deadly Sin of Reification?
From our very own JMJ, who asked this in response to an announcement of my new book (read this first): Briggs, how many people how you encountered who need these…
Posted inStatistics
Stream: Choose to Read This Article About Research Saying You Don’t Have Free Will
Today's post is at The Stream: Choose to Read This Article About Research Saying You Don't Have Free Will. ..."Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study…
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Are We Smart Enough To Know What Intelligence Is? — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQZDW7KN5w Aaron Neville: You're So Smart Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence That was Michio Kaku on intelligence, getting some things right, some wrong. Let's focus on what he…