...Nicholas Maxwell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to spell out the urgent need to correct structural rationality defects in academia as it exists at present, so that it may become actively and effectively engaged in helping us solve the grave global problems that confront us. Design...

... to obtain feedback on the correctness of the hypotheses that we use to explain and predict reality, we must confront them with facts and with other theories about reality. Rationality consists in the willingness to learn from one’s mistakes; that is the crux of falsifiability. The fact that apart from...