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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2046: Beginning with Conclusions

Posted on May 17, 2021 · Episode: 2046 We struggle not to begin an inquiry with its conclusion. Today, we try not to begin with our conclusion.

Posted on December 19, 2019 · Episode: 3006 The Good and Bad of Generalization. Today, we generalize.

Posted on July 16, 2019 · Episode: 2933 Math and The Dreyfus Affair. Today, courtroom drama.

Posted on September 18, 2018 · Episode: 2805 Gottlob Frege and Formal Logic. Today, a man of logic.

Posted on October 4, 2017 · Episode: 1406 The end of the medieval age of reason. Today, a brief bright era in medieval Europe.

Posted on June 8, 2017 · Episode: 3128 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Lincoln-Douglas Debating. Today, up for debate.

Posted on April 13, 2017 · Episode: 3119 Math As A Humble Servant To Science. Today, strange bedfellows.

Posted on December 23, 2015 · Episode: 1081 Paradoxes: “Skeletons in the closet of reason” Today, I’ll try to tell you, “I am a liar.”