Lost in Math
MCMP
English - March 13, 2018 12:08 - 29 minutes - 441 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture philosophy logic science language mathematics hannes leitgeb stephan hartmann mcmp lmu Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sabine Hossenfelder (NORDITA, Stockholm) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Lost in Math". Abstract: I will speak about the role of social and cognitive biases in hypotheses pre-selection, and reflect on the rationale behind the concepts of naturalness, simplicity and beauty.