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Competing Paradigms: On “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn”
Philosopher Paul Dicken reviews a new volume, “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science,” edited by Bojana Mladenović.
Paul Dicken
Paul Dicken is a writer and philosopher based in rural England, and the author of Getting Science Wrong: Why the Philosophy of Science Matters (2018).
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Dusting Off Our Mirror-Shades: On Matthew Ball’s “The Metaverse”
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The World Is a Strange Madhouse: 100 Years of Relativity
Paul Dicken marks the centenary of “The Meaning of Relativity,” Einstein’s attempt to explain his runaway theory and correct its “mad” cultural...
The Computer Says … What?
Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way...
Seeing Time: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity for Beginners
A charming review of a charmingly quirky art-science book about simultaneity (how to see it) and Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
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