A couple of months ago, my friend Isaac Morehouse asked me to talk about the philosophy of mathematics and why I consider it so important.
Appeals to mathematics are everywhere, from COVID lockdowns to NFL play calling, and if our concepts about math are flawed, we make the world a significantly worse place.
What does scientific progress look like? Is it steady progress, getting ever closer to the truth?
What about cases where we seem to have lost knowledge or the foundations of a theory we’ve been building on turned out to be wrong? Can that still be useful? Is that still progress?
These are some of the questions I explore with Geoff Anders. Geoff is a philosopher and research program designer who is studying how knowledge works.
He founded Leverage Research, an institute which studies the history and philosophy of science. Their mission is to understand how scientific progress happens so that we can apply those lessons to new or struggling fields.
Check out the Leverage Research website here: https://www.leverageresearch.org/
Or on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/LeverageResearch/
You can read Geoff’s series about knowledge here: https://medium.com/@geoffanders
Follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/geoffanders
Libertarians like myself tend to focus on the abuse of power hierarchies. The existence of a “ruling class” makes most of us uneasy. However, might these sociological structures serve a valuable purpose? Are they inevitable parts of human society? Samo Burja joins me to discuss.
Guest’s website: http://www.samoburja.com