Obscure and Confused Ideas

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• Obscure and Confused Ideas: 2021

  idiosyncratic perspectives on philosophy of science, its history, and related issues in logic

• Obscure and Confused Ideas: August 2020

  What our successful scientific theories say about unobservable entities and processes is approximately true. This is not the only way to formulate scientific realism, but it is one of the more commo...

• Obscure and Confused Ideas: 2018

  For me, one of the interesting experiences of getting older is seeing, from the internal first-person perspective, many of the generalizations one hears about 'getting older' come true in my own life....

• Obscure and Confused Ideas: What is a 'generalist' journal?

  There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere recently about some of sociologist Kieran Healy's really interesting preliminary findi...

• Obscure and Confused Ideas: Ontological Commitment, "To be is to be the value of a bound variable

  I am currently working on a paper on Quine's shifting ontological thoughts. Something occurred to me while reading some of his stuff from t...

• Obscure and Confused Ideas: September 2016

  Like (almost) everyone else, I define ‘deductively correct,' i.e. 'valid' as follows: An argument A is deductively correct (valid) = If all of A’s premises are true, then A’s conclusion must be t...