david jon furbish @PhilSciProf@mastodon.online
granddad & irreverent prof who frets about the wellbeing of our students & studies statistical physics of sediment transport, fluids, science philosophy & accoustic guitar
Joe Walker’s podcast interview of David Deutsch covers a lot: meeting Karl Popper with a multiverse twist, dissing Bayesianism (not Bayes’ theorem) as induction, thence the importance of explanation versus prediction, and the key role of criticism.
https://josephnoelwalker.com/139-david-deutsch/
Some hashtags representing my research interests:
#probability
#statistics
#statistical-physics
#sediment
#granular-materials
#geophysics
#philosophyofscience
Rowan the intrepid woof makes me happy. Among other things we play dragon soccer together… three soccer balls and two stuffed dragons… with complicated rules.
granddad & irreverent prof who frets about the wellbeing of our students & studies statistical physics of sediment transport, fluids, science philosophy & accoustic guitar
