Philosophy of Science

The measurement problem

Does the wave function describe reality or only our knowledge of it? Three fundamental problems—the result, the statistics, and the effect—reveal that the issue of measurement is not just a philosophical question.
Prof. Ron Margolin, Tel Aviv University. Screenshot.

Podcast: The Great Mysteries of Science – Is There Intelligence in the Universe? (Episode 4)

Prof. Ron Margolin of Tel Aviv University on meaning, the laws of nature, and whether the universe is “directed” — from Tel Aviv 360, Tel Aviv University’s podcast channel (Hebrew only)
Turing test involving two robots. Image prepared by DALEE

Does the Turing test meet the GPT test?

Is the human-machine identification criterion proposed by Turing 75 years ago relevant in the era of advanced chatbots?
The late Prof. Yosef Agassi. From Wikipedia

The Israeli philosopher Professor Yosef Agassi passed away close to his 95th birthday

Agassi was born and grew up ultra-Orthodox and left the religion in adolescence. Considered the senior philosopher in Israel and was a student of Karl Popper. He asked to change the nationality on the identity card from Jewish to Israeli and was refused
The galaxy cluster Abell 520, with parts suspected of being dark matter highlighted in blue. NASA

Dark matter: Should we be so sure it exists? This is how philosophy can help

It's been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed "dark matter," thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Even so, we have no idea what dark matter is. Nobody saw you
: Participants in the chemical garden experiment, as part of the Scientists' Night 2011. Photo by Gili Yaari

Thought experiments / Joshua Nob

Prof. Stephen Hawking in a plane that allows training in zero gravity conditions. Photo: NASA

The (elusive) theory of everything / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Malodino

Carl Popper

Can history be predicted?

Tower of Babel of scientific language. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

Is science the new religion?