I just submitted Ch. 8 of my Master's thesis as a writing sample. To give my readers more background, I wrote the following:

Background for the Writing Sample
The following writing sample is a chapter taken from my Master's thesis, which I wrote in Amsterdam in 2005 ( Read more... )

Francesco Guala - Models, Simulations, and ExperimentsMy thoughts ( Read more... )

MR's short post "Risk Analysis using Roulette Wheels" reads:
A PSA test can reveal the presence of prostate cancer. But not all such cancers are fatal and treatment involves the risk of impotence. Do you really want the test? It's difficult for patients to evaluate these kinds of risks. Mahalanobis points us to an article advocating visual ( Read more... )

Michael Huemer - Foundations and Coherence looks like a nice, introductory review paper on epistemic regress.

Shut up and calculate!

Why do physicists care about interpretations of QM? Do differerent interpretations make different predictions? If so, shouldn't they then be called theories instead?

Frank van Harmelen seems like an interesting person

"Groot, Ten Heije, van Harmelen - Towards a Structured Analysis of Approximate Problem Solving: a Case Study in Classification
The use of approximation as a method for dealing with complex problems is a fundamental research issue in Knowledge Representation. Using approximation in symbolic AI is ( Read more... )

Great Ideas in Personality is a site comparing several approaches in personality psychology side-to-side, with lots of material on methodology & philosophy of science.

According to the "received view" in formal philosophy of science, we need a notion of nomic (law-like) necessity in order to formulate scientific laws ( Read more... )

Richard Cooper - What would convince me that my theory was wrong? is a PowerPoint presentation in 15 slides ( Read more... )

Mark Priestley - The Logic of Correctness in Software Engineering

Abstract. This paper uses a framework drawn from work in the philosophy ( Read more... )