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?
E8: Curing this Guy's Headache - Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics
E7: Summer at Aphelion - The Climate Change Episode
E6: NME Skepticism - Pyrrho was Right!
E5: This Reminds Me of Another Future - The Emergence Episode
E4: The Tiger in the Bushes - The Truth Episode
E3: Triamond Joy! - A World Beyond Truth Seeking
E2: An Immense Investment in the Utterly Obvious - Gould and Lewontin's "Spandrels of San Marco"
E1: John Searle does not Understand - The Chinese Room Argument
E0: Dawdlers & (but mostly) Hustlers - Introducing the Dawdler's Philosophy
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