190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Science of Science - Is There a Future for Us?
Sceptic magazine U f o provides tools of how to think about fringe claims that scientists mostly don't have the time to deal with. It uses principles like egree principle and principal proportionality from hume, so you apportion your confidence in the belief to the evidence for it. So if aliens come here, presumably they could deconstruct newtonian mechanics and ninstenian relativity, but would they reinvent or get something out of art or shakespeare? Or would they reconstruct something like a biblical world view of religion that to me feels more made up or constructed, rather than discovered? That's such an interesting question, and i don't think anyone's going to ask me except
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