Ah so we ran this last year, and aren't currently hosting new versions of it.
If you're interested in philosophy x AI educational programs we have an expression of interest (link below) & we'll announce via substack future ones we're running!
I know this isn’t a new piece (almost a year old), but just for the record: The piece begins with four bullets. The first claim there is something historians of ideas call The Copernican Myth. See https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/the-copernican-myths for a thorough debunking. The second, about Bacon, is not quite right: Bacon set the control of nature as a program rather than “revealing” it was possible to control it—there was lots of science and engineering before Bacon. The third, about Newton, presents a false contrast: I’m not aware of anyone in the early modern period who thought the laws of nature operated according to “intuition”.
Thanks, these are good critiques. I would still say (1) the Copernican shift symbolically displaced humanity’s privileged viewpoint, regardless of what sixteenth-century theologians thought about the “low” center. (2) Bacon named and authorized the project of mastery in a way that made it socially operative, even if technical control pre-existed. And (3) "nous" is what I had in mind when referring to intuition (rational-intuitive vs more modern emotional etc. usage). Moderns explicitly opposed “anticipations of nature” (intuitive guesses in Bacon's language) to “interpretations of nature” (systematic induction).
Perhaps a moot point to the august personages of the Cosmos Institute, but, for the sake of working stiffs like me, on what days and times, and in which places, is this thing happening?
Love this. 🤝. Love your work. We desperately need a new conversation about the history and philosophy of Science and #scientia - the canon of ideas & disciplines underpinning the scientific method - and it’s role in shaping modern humanity & its relationship with the values of the Enlightenment it helped drive. This is partly what I was driving at in my recent post:
How does one join this reading group?
Ah so we ran this last year, and aren't currently hosting new versions of it.
If you're interested in philosophy x AI educational programs we have an expression of interest (link below) & we'll announce via substack future ones we're running!
https://cosmosinst.typeform.com/education
I know this isn’t a new piece (almost a year old), but just for the record: The piece begins with four bullets. The first claim there is something historians of ideas call The Copernican Myth. See https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/the-copernican-myths for a thorough debunking. The second, about Bacon, is not quite right: Bacon set the control of nature as a program rather than “revealing” it was possible to control it—there was lots of science and engineering before Bacon. The third, about Newton, presents a false contrast: I’m not aware of anyone in the early modern period who thought the laws of nature operated according to “intuition”.
Thanks, these are good critiques. I would still say (1) the Copernican shift symbolically displaced humanity’s privileged viewpoint, regardless of what sixteenth-century theologians thought about the “low” center. (2) Bacon named and authorized the project of mastery in a way that made it socially operative, even if technical control pre-existed. And (3) "nous" is what I had in mind when referring to intuition (rational-intuitive vs more modern emotional etc. usage). Moderns explicitly opposed “anticipations of nature” (intuitive guesses in Bacon's language) to “interpretations of nature” (systematic induction).
Perhaps a moot point to the august personages of the Cosmos Institute, but, for the sake of working stiffs like me, on what days and times, and in which places, is this thing happening?
Love this. 🤝. Love your work. We desperately need a new conversation about the history and philosophy of Science and #scientia - the canon of ideas & disciplines underpinning the scientific method - and it’s role in shaping modern humanity & its relationship with the values of the Enlightenment it helped drive. This is partly what I was driving at in my recent post:
...https://open.substack.com/pub/georgefreemanmp?r=6isp8&utm_medium=ios