The Machine of Motor Logic Is a Way of Reasoning About Possible Worlds

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David Lewis: I'm just left in awe of what the human mind can do. So you could view possibilities as just sort of us stats things, descriptions of how the world might be. And then the apparatus of motor logic is a way of reasoning about like, well, if we think of ourselves in these, in this space of possibility, possibilities,. What follows, what's necessary from here, what's only possible from here, et cetera. But there are reasonable, intelligent people who don't think you can do it. We are getting best ripping off the validators.

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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