Monthly Archives: August 2012

The search for the mythical episteme has a potential new tool: the poker machine. The manufacturers code answers to potential problem situations and assign probabilities of the answers being correct. All the players need do is press buttons to choose … Continue reading →

A tacit assumption common in arguments concerning the scientific method, criteria of demarcation, experimental procedures, and so forth, is that scientific methods should be like effective methods for empirical problems. In logic, an effective method is a procedure for computing the … Continue reading →

The debate concerning so-called ‘theories of truth’ has always stumped me, because it seems prima facie absurd. When I use the predicate ‘is true’, what I’m referring to is correspondence to the facts. The purpose of all my investigations is, … Continue reading →

The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem solved easily by cheating or ‘thinking outside the box.’ In Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Karl … Continue reading →

In September 2007, at the Popper conference in Prague, Donald Gillies presented a paper “Problem Solving and the Problem of Induction”. This was included in the collection of conference articles, “Rethinking Popper” edited by Parusnikova and Cohen and published in … Continue reading →