Matthew J. Spaniol
@matthewspaniol.bsky.social
Senior Researcher in Futures and Foresight Science. Roskilde University, Denmark.
They catch your attention with an injustice and quickly follow it with the next headline or the new news cycle and we throw up our hands and say, "well I guess it doesn't matter!" How can we fix this to be able to focus our limited resources and attention to fight injustice?
June 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
They catch your attention with an injustice and quickly follow it with the next headline or the new news cycle and we throw up our hands and say, "well I guess it doesn't matter!" How can we fix this to be able to focus our limited resources and attention to fight injustice?
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May 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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They are in Sptfy?
March 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
They are in Sptfy?
From my understanding, if you take Pierce's abduction, and then add fallibility, eliminate all induction, and add inter-subjective argumentation, you get Popper's notion of conjecture.
March 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
From my understanding, if you take Pierce's abduction, and then add fallibility, eliminate all induction, and add inter-subjective argumentation, you get Popper's notion of conjecture.
We should pull it into orbit around the moon. Just be careful.
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We should pull it into orbit around the moon. Just be careful.
We should pull it into orbit around the moon. Just be careful.
March 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We should pull it into orbit around the moon. Just be careful.
Canada should tariff red states and blue states differently.
March 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Canada should tariff red states and blue states differently.
Canada should tariff red states and blue states differently.
March 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Canada should tariff red states and blue states differently.
Vance is wrong. Intolerant groups must not be tolerated in a democracy. It is known as Popper's paradox of tolerance www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
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February 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Vance is wrong. Intolerant groups must not be tolerated in a democracy. It is known as Popper's paradox of tolerance www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
We should move it into orbit around the moon and mine it.
February 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We should move it into orbit around the moon and mine it.
So those are some of my concerns after the first 10 min or so. Would love to hear if I am getting this wrong. Thx!
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
So those are some of my concerns after the first 10 min or so. Would love to hear if I am getting this wrong. Thx!
4) The emphasis on training and education (9:18) seems strange and could be the source of the flawed assumptions to begin with, so is this both the cure and the disease?
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
4) The emphasis on training and education (9:18) seems strange and could be the source of the flawed assumptions to begin with, so is this both the cure and the disease?
3) Great we are celebrating mistakes (NASA example). At 9:35 it seems that we are tasked with coming up for criterion ourselves, instead of deriving the criteria from the theories' explanations of the problem structure. I sense an overall lack of a problem orientation in critical realism.
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
3) Great we are celebrating mistakes (NASA example). At 9:35 it seems that we are tasked with coming up for criterion ourselves, instead of deriving the criteria from the theories' explanations of the problem structure. I sense an overall lack of a problem orientation in critical realism.
2) What is the problem that critical realism solves? It seems that the objective is to help us surface our assumptions and be more reflexive in our science (3:39). For that, then, it is a "toolbox" (5:25). One may characterize it as a method for surfacing assumptions. Would that be correct?
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
2) What is the problem that critical realism solves? It seems that the objective is to help us surface our assumptions and be more reflexive in our science (3:39). For that, then, it is a "toolbox" (5:25). One may characterize it as a method for surfacing assumptions. Would that be correct?
OK, so I watched the first 10 minutes, here are my thoughts. 1) Emphasis on falibalism. While this is a point of agreement, the emphasis on the role of observation makes me wonder if inductivism is still haunting critical realism (see 6:38). At 11:31 we are confirming theories (not very falibalistc)
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
OK, so I watched the first 10 minutes, here are my thoughts. 1) Emphasis on falibalism. While this is a point of agreement, the emphasis on the role of observation makes me wonder if inductivism is still haunting critical realism (see 6:38). At 11:31 we are confirming theories (not very falibalistc)
That there is a reality beyond ourselves is similar with Popper. What would you take to be the other core tenet(s) of critical realism?
January 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
That there is a reality beyond ourselves is similar with Popper. What would you take to be the other core tenet(s) of critical realism?
Is judgmental rationality different from Popper's critical rationalism's notion of "you may be right and I may be wrong, but if we sit and discuss we may both get nearer to the truth?"
January 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Is judgmental rationality different from Popper's critical rationalism's notion of "you may be right and I may be wrong, but if we sit and discuss we may both get nearer to the truth?"
It is well known in my uni, but it seems sometimes like colleagues use it as an excuse for "anything goes." I find Popper much more clear and useful youtu.be/vKO8YRwVVu8?...
The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’
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January 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It is well known in my uni, but it seems sometimes like colleagues use it as an excuse for "anything goes." I find Popper much more clear and useful youtu.be/vKO8YRwVVu8?...
For Trump supporters reading this, I'd bet that this technique will also lead to productive conversations with those who are not. But again, one must remain poised, patient, and persistent.
Good luck, and please do let us know how it goes in the comments. /Matt
Good luck, and please do let us know how it goes in the comments. /Matt
January 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
For Trump supporters reading this, I'd bet that this technique will also lead to productive conversations with those who are not. But again, one must remain poised, patient, and persistent.
Good luck, and please do let us know how it goes in the comments. /Matt
Good luck, and please do let us know how it goes in the comments. /Matt
This technique is by no means a silver bullet, and to do it properly, a genuine effort to understand the other must be made. And a warning that to engage productively with loved ones in the current political climate is risky.
January 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This technique is by no means a silver bullet, and to do it properly, a genuine effort to understand the other must be made. And a warning that to engage productively with loved ones in the current political climate is risky.