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Category Archives: philosophy of science
Design Education in the Future
If the last big rethink for design was “human centered design,” then what is this generation’s message about the nature of design? Continue reading
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modes of paradigm shift
1. Incremental “Quantity has a quality all its own” – Joseph Stalin This is the kind of paradigm shift where a large number eventually becomes a mass. Often it involves emergence (where relationships or patterns form that weren’t visible or … Continue reading
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IxD viewpoint
I’ve just spent my spring break distilling a portfolio out of a collection of my work over the past 2.5 years at the institute of design. I’ve got a clear story: After growing up as an artist, I came to … Continue reading
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limits of science
“Moving from classical to quantum mechanics required scientists to ab andon their hopes for absolute measurement precision to gain much greater statistical predictive power.” Pg 278; north and macal- managing business complexity, 2007
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Before 1920, the success of Newton’s and Einsteins theories, and of science and math in general, were so great that everyone conflated them with reality itself. In my reading on the philosophy of science and mathematics, I’ve seen that the … Continue reading
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The Third Culture and The Edge
“The strength of the third culture is precisely that it can tolerate disagreements about which ideas are to be taken seriously. ” http://www.edge.org/about_edge.html
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science of quality
Christopher Bartneck claims that design is the science of quality. I was meditating on that and thought that maybe quality is all the stuff that other sciences can’t qualify. any better thoughts?
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too big to fail
The big book I’ve just started, Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings, points out that errors and failures are a key part of our learning process. If we were to accomplish the “goal” of many theories and methods of stopping errors … Continue reading
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http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13315818&source=hptextfeature It’s very interesting to think about the process of commercializing scientific research. I wonder how formalized the process is at MIT and other large research universities – maybe there’s the potential for a research project there.
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intersections
I was browsing for sources for the systems project and came across a quote from Neil Gershenfeld of MIT: …’but “the bubbles kept interfering,” Gershenfeld says. “It eventually occurred to us that we should use them.” ‘ (http://www.technologyreview.com/article/18673/) This “occurred … Continue reading
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