I do not have much to say about the philosophy of science as such. I read a lot of Lakatos that one time.
Mostly, I am interested in a kind of qualitative mechanism design musing as it pertains to designing better peer-review.
1 What is science?
Not really in that vein, check out amusing curmudgeon: DC Stove, Popper and after: Four modern irrationalists.
Question: does science advance one funeral at a time?.
2 Case study: Medicine
See history of medicine.
3 Memetics of Science
There are a lot of models of what scientific consensus might mean. (Kuhnian paradigms, degenerative research programs or whatever Lakatos called them, etc). I have now hived this off into community of science and science communication.
4 The problems of journals in particular
See publication bias.
5 Incoming
- Michael Burnam-Fink, What is Scientific about Data Science?
- Shalizi reviews Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science: “A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity”
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