Philosophy of science and the blockchain: A book review – Windows On Theory
This blog post is a book review of sorts for the following two books: To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (2016) The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Create…
This blog post is a book review of sorts for the following two books: To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (2016) The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens (2020). Both books cover (in different proportions) the history and philosophy of science. By the end of this post, I will also discuss my thoughts. Trigger warning: I will end up comparing science to the blockchain and finding positive aspects of the dreaded “reviewer 2”. Both books attempt to answer the question of “why and how did the scientific revolution happ
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