The Knowledge Machine

How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Book • 2020

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Josh Goldman

as a guide to the company's epistemology of exploration.

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Andrew McAfee

for its explanation of science as an eternal argument governed by evidence.

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Rudyard Lynch

when discussing the origin of the scientific method and its limitations.

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Stuart Ritchie

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Tom Chivers

as a major figure in philosophy of science.

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Stewart Alsop

when discussing the philosophies of Popper and Kuhn and how scientific theories come with assumptions.

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