The Baconian Heresy: A Confutation

The Infinity Heresy

Of course, before an unending number of objections start pouring in to my bottomless email box, I need to clarify this brazen claim. After all, humans have been grappling with the concept of infinity for many millennia and mathematicians seem to have (at least in the last 150 years or so) finally tamed it. First, building on the work of Euler, Cauchy and Weierstrass, we now have the ability to ...

From baconian to popperian neuroscience

The development of neuroscience over the past 50 years has some similarities with the development of physics in the 17th century. Towards the beginning of that century, Bacon promoted the systematic gathering of experimental data and the induction of scientific truth; towards the end, Newton expressed his principles of gravitation and motion in a concise set of mathematical equations that made ...

Panel: “Heresy, Inquisition, and the State”

Religious persecution of “heretics” by the Catholic Church that characterizes the middle ages had its roots in power struggles centuries prior. In the first centuries of Christianity, Christians fought amongst themselves for interpretive and doctrinal authority. Heterodoxy didn’t stand a chance in the Middle Ages; in Late Antiquity nothing was certain. Everything changed when, in 380, Emperor T...

On Mally’s Alleged Heresy: A Reply

In this paper, I respond to critics who claim that E. Mally’s distinction between two modes of predication, as it is employed in my theory of abstract objects, is reducible to, or analyzable in terms of, a single mode ofobjects, is reducible to, or analyzable in terms of, a single mode of predication plus the distinction between nuclear and extranuclear properties. I argue against these claims ...

Facing the Nuclear Heresy: A Call to Reformation