محمد

Interested in the conceptual, metaphysical and foundational questions of science

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@xEPluribusUnum Trust me if the Neo-Atheists hadn't hijacked the empirical sciences, this same crowd would be championing the crudest scientism going. Their position just tracks the opponent that's all the flip-flopping is.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

I keep wondering why the current Arab intellectual milieu's Feyerabend-style line quietly vanishes the moment any public crisis touches science. The only answer I can land on is that they were using it opportunistically all along. No actual philosophy of science behind it.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

It seems to me there’s a long tradition of treating the word “abstract” as in, “I abstract X from Y”, as if it solves everything. The word gets handed an explanatory burden it simply can’t carry on its own

[James Jouissance @JamesJouissance]

Actual logician Jan Łukasiewicz on why the history of logic needs to be reconceived. Actual mathematician Nicholas Bourbaki on the relevance of Aristotle to math.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

الفصل الخامس
من هو متوحد ابن باجة؟
https://t.co/MXdDmUfwJ1

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@al5awarzme Oh no, you completely missed my point here, will DM you, the space is too tight here

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@al5awarzme What you try to do will only lead you to show that mathematics is dispensable from physics in principle and it is not easy to prove that. I shared with you a book about this before. Or you may join the other group who haven’t figure out yet why the one is a number not a measure

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@Xthoughtshere Nice! But I am holding out for a better publisher

[محمد @Carnapthought]

The value lay not only in the solution,but in the debates it stirred & you sense a fundamental difference, compared to other traditions, in the way the problem itself is understood and perceived when reading the geometric commentaries, especially after the 15th century.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

This paper is a good example of a recurring problem in reading physics textbooks. Even a philosopher of science as good as Nancy Cartwright isn’t immune to it.
https://t.co/HilnF9Oe7c

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@xEPluribusUnum Not really, kinda underwhelming.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@moayyadthoughts طبيعي، الشيء المتكرر أن العقلية الدرباوية مصيرها بالنهاية تبدأ تاكل نفسها، مشكلته ما جابها بطريقة منمقة شوي "يلد علي الطلاق ما يعرفون "الهندسة القيدييمة" بس الغالب مولع بتقليد المغلوب..إلخ" هي عقلية ما تشوف مشكلتها فئة إلى أن تنقلب عليها من فئة أخرى

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@Demon_jester_20 أفهمك، لكن الإشكال عندي أوسع. يمكن يوضح عند مثل طريقة هاورد شتاين وجوناثان لير، لو تقرأ أعمالهم حتى عند محاولتهم تبنّي صياغة ذات نَفس أرسطي، ما يتعاملون مع الأمر كما لو كان تطابق واضح. تجد إدراك بالكلفة المفاهيمية، وبالفارق البنيوي وهذا مثال من خاتمة ورقة لير ربما أوضح من كلامي

[محمد @Carnapthought]

A central pathology of contemporary Arab & Islamic philosophical discourse is its refusal to take structural difference seriously

[ٱلْحُسَيْنُ اَلْمُرْتَضَى @rdw445]

ابن سينا ، يصف اندماج الزمان و المكان بتأثير السرعة .. سابقآ اينشتاين والنسبيه اكثر من ٧٥٠ عام

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@al5awarzmy1 Geometry and QFT? that’s based. Good to know you didn’t get swept up in the quantum computing boom

[Ed Finley–Richardson @ed_fin]

Saudis deserve a TON of credit for their professionalism.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

That is why many philosophers who are not technically grounded in physics fail to produce a consistent account of measurement, something that is usually clear enough to specialists. It is exactly the kind of mistake I would not want physicists to make.

[محمد @Carnapthought]

At a workshop, I argued for two points that I think are fairly familiar to philosophers of physics, but less so to physicists: choosing an interpretation of QM isn't just a matter of personal preference, because each interpretation carries substantial theoretical commitments

[محمد @Carnapthought]

@zxidwa يا أخي الأكاديمي عندهم يسأل أمس الفرات إيش جابه سوريا وأنت تبي تشرح؟ تجاوز