LIBERAL POSITIVISM

A short collections of essays on positivism, rationality and, above all, the vision of scientific knowledge as the result of a contractarian process.

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CONTENTS
1: Positivism is a humanism.
2: Evolution, empiricism, and purposeness. A philosophy-of-science criticism of intelligent design.
3. The economics of a positivist methodology.
4. Why social sciences are natural, and why they can’t.
5. Towards a constitutional economics of science.
6. What would you say in an ideal speech situation? A note on science as a communication process.

THREE TYPES OF DELIBERATION

A PLEA FOR POSITIVISM

EVOLUTION, EMPIRICISM AND PURPOSENESS. A CRITICISM OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

This is my presentation at the AIPS symposium 'Evolutionism and Religion', Firenze, november 2009. It's a criticism of Intelligent Design theory, from the point of view of philosophy of science.
Part I: on the mistaken notion of 'explanation' underlying Dembski's 'explanatory filter'
Part II: on 'No free lunch theorems' and the connection between theories and data
Part III: Intelligent design vs. real scientific research.

Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 1. A criticism of Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 2. A criticism of Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Empiricism & Purpose 3

NO FREE LUNCH

PAPERS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Download here my papers in philosophy of science (from 1992 to 2009), published in journals like Synthese, Erkenntnis, Philosophy of Science, Theoria, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Economic Methodology, Perspectives on Science, Episteme...

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The abstracts can be read here.

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Topics cover rational-choice models of scientific knowledge production ('economics of scientific knowledge'), approximation to the truth (verisimilitude or truthlikeness), semantics of scientific concepts, philosophy of social science, and more.

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Any comments or criticisms are welcomed.

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