What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
48
pages
Longest Book
1,152
pages
Average book length in
2023
302
pages
Most Shelved
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also shelved
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19
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also shelved
Dan’s
average rating for
2023
4.3
4.3
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.67
average
Dan’s first review of the year
liked it
The book starts well - by presenting logical empiricism, induction, confirmation, Popper's refutation, Kuhn's paradigms, the superiority of Kuhn's over Popper's theory of science, and a few more. But at some point it drops the philosophy of science in favor of the sociology of science, and then starts promoting “naturalism” and “realism”. Naturalism – as a theory of science - is based on science itself and on some forms of empiricism and psycholo
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Dan’s last review of the year
really liked it
It is great to encounter deep philosophical, political, social, and religious wisdom outside the Western transition and before any subjective, materialistic, idealistic, or relativistic worldviews. I suspect that translation and adaptation to our modern world is a big issue; and that what we get here is not exactly what Confucius intended.
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