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 - E5: Reproducing
E22: A Farewell to Armchairs - Philosophy Without Intuitions
Shorts - E4: Mortality
E21: Ever Since the Universe Invented Imagination - What Do You Believe but Can't Prove?
Shorts - E3: Time Travel
E20: The Great Silliness - Consciousness Does Not Exist
Shorts - E2: Determinism
E19: The Muck Raker's Son-in-Law - R.A. Fisher's Science and Statistics
Shorts - E1: Does Everyone Have a Right to Their Opinions?
E18: Wittgenstein's Inner Parliament - Exploring "On Certainty"
E17: The Final Induction - The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses
Haunting the Margins - E1: Robert Anton Wilson
E16: Episodic Synchrony - Diversity in Consumer-Resource Systems
E15: The Rolling Wall of Fog - Science v. Philosophy
E14: Nietzsche's Rich Pageant - Exploring "Will to Power"
E13: Footnotes to Fermi - The Aliens Episode
E12: Daniel Dennett's Easy Problems - Content, Consciousness, and Intuition Pumps
E11: I Just Wanna Get off the Bus - The Overpopulation Episode
E10: The Argument Argument - Walking the Tightrope 'twixt Truth and Nihilism
E9: Megadeath - The Mass Extinction Episode
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