Yeats repeats “a terrible beauty is born” in his poem “Easter, 1916”. The poem expresses the emotional limbo of Yeats as he grapples with the post World War I Irish rebellion in response to the broken promise of Irish liberation. Out of acts of violence, comes the hope of freedom. Or is it the hope of freedom that fuels acts of violence?
Whence progress?
Do we make progress with ideas, and if so, does it not require a "terrible beauty" as a means of initiation?
In this episode the Dawdler’s use Sabine Hossenfelder’s book “Lost in Math” as a guide to explore where, if anywhere, we ought to place appeals to beauty in our intellectual searches. It’s a theme that has surfaced now and again on the podcast and here the Dawdlers take a bit of a plunge.
Settle down with your inner chimp. It’s about to get unreasonable.
00:06:43 – Topic Introduction
00:12:54 – Philosophy of Aesthetics? // Two Theses on Taste
00:22:44 – G.E.P. Box’s Scientific Feedback Loop
00:26:16 – Falsifiability vs. Unplausifiability // Constraints on the Foundations of Physics
00:37:36 – Arguments from Beauty/“Naturalness” // Symmetry Stuff
00:52:24 – Biases
00:56:00 – Harland and Ryan duke it out about aesthetic concerns in ideas?
Shorts - E26: Planet(ary Problems) of the Apes
Shorts - E25: Pedants and Magisters
Shorts - E24: Deadlock
E40: Maniraptoran Gravy -The Dinosaur Episode
E39: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Whitehead on Laws of Nature
E38: Cognitive Combinatorialism - What Makes Humans Special?
E37: The Memory of an Old Idea No One Ever Had - Derrida's Hauntology
E36: The Man on the Street - A Definition of 'Definition'
Shorts - E23: Discordianism
Shorts - E22: Self-Evidence
E35: An Irenic Kind of Fellow - A Discussion on Illusionism with Keith Frankish
E34: More Vice Than Virtue – Nelson Goodman’s Fake News
Shorts - E21: Personal Accountability
Shorts - E20: The Monty Hall Problem
E33: Massimo Pigliucci's Hard Problems - Multi-Level Selection & Cultural Evolution
Shorts - E19: Repeatability in Science
Shorts - E18: Depression
E32: Anatol Rapoport's Man-Made Conflicts - General Systems Theory
E31: The Helm of the Mutineers - On Sociopolitical Revolutions
E30: The Imbalance of the Century - Zizek v. Peterson
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