https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3861g21r A review of Turchin's Ages of Discord (more an exegesis), which turns into a brief meditation on the limits of conventional mathematical social science (the failure of mathematical social science to model society as the dynamic nonlinear system society is).
Conclusion of this piece says it all!
Would love to find a graduate school somewhere in a couple of years where I can be mentored in developing my own such models...
A big old bricolage. Philosophy (every kind, but nowadays I probably will only write on philosophy of x, where x is a science or mathematics (+retain some interest in meta-phil/meta-ethics)), leftish politics (but now weary of political pontificating), (post-Keynesian) economics (but now weary of economic theorising), palaeoanthropology, linguistics, history, natural history, ecology, and some (mostly old) writing of a more artistic kind, autobiographical and fiction (both mostly humorous).
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