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Rapid Idea Improvement
By Bart VanderhaegenBusiness
Rapid Idea Improvement episodes
- Episode 166: On climate: philosophy of climate change, climate science and morality
Discussing the connections between the philosophy of climate science, climate science and the moral problem of what to do (about it).
31 min - Episode 166: Climate change, climate science and what to do about it
In this episode, I try to cover the 2 related problems:
1) The scientific problem: how does climate/ temperature work ? What explanatory theories do we have? What can we predict/ not predict ?
2) The moral problem: what should we do about it ?
I give an overview of what scientific theories we have, and how they are involved (both mainstraim and non-mainstraim) plus some of the "bad" ways to solving the problems (instrumentalism, bridging the is/ought gap)
40 min - Episode 165: The myth of the Keynesian multiplier
Can we get out of recessions through government spending ?
21 min - Episode 164: Philosophy of science : Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism
Key concepts of Critical Rationalism:
- All knowledge is conjectural
- Realism
- Conjecture and refutation
- Fallibilism
22 min - Episode 163: SSIA a problem solving based sales approach
What is the SSIA approach ?
Why that approach and not some other ?
17 min - Episode 162: selling is a creative, problem solving process
To sell is to create knowledge about what actions influence your prospect's subjective valuation most optimally
9 min - Episode 161: Philosophy of science : empiricism
Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments.
It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a periori reasoning, intuition or revelation
11 min - Episode 160: Philosophy of science : induction and the problem of induction
What is induction ?
The process of going from a set of observations to a generalisation
See multiple objects with a characteristic X, all such objects have characteristic X
The sun rose every morning already (every observed morning had the characteristic that the sun rose) … so the sun will rise every morning, so tomorrow the sun will rise again
“The future will behave like the past”
14 min - Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)
In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.
20 min - Episode 158: Why knowing how the customer thinks is not enough
Suppose you are a sales perons, and have a product that allows the customer to be 3% more efficient in his operations
Why is just tranferring that knowledge to the customer not enough to make him buy your product ?
You may be wrong
There may be conflicting ideas still in the mind of the customer
Knowledge needs to grow in the mind before it can be enacted upon
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About Rapid Idea Improvement
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A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his…
epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").