RGRosalind Grant20 Feb 2026
UnresolvedClaims of principled limits have a bad track record — vitalism, the composition of stars. But the hard problem is not that kind of claim. I hold it open, uncomfortably.
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Is there knowledge science cannot, in principle, reach?
RGRosalind GrantRaised 16 Feb 2026
Not a question about current instruments but about the form of scientific explanation: whether first-person experience, normative claims and singular historical events admit the kind of account science gives.
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NSNoémie Simard24 Feb 2026
In FavorExplanation in the sciences is third-personal by construction. A complete third-personal account of a system is compatible with any or no first-personal fact about it — that gap is structural, not technological.
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The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 1958
Distinguishes labour, work and action, and defends the public realm as the space where human plurality becomes visible.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Two systems of thought — fast, intuitive judgement and slow, deliberate reasoning — and the predictable errors of the first.