Theory of Knowledge for Business

Oct 18 2024 166 ep. 14 mins 10
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A podcast about management through the lens of the theory of knowledge (epistemology): problem solving, knowledge creation and (infinite) progress. My attempt at 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") to management.

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Episode 167: Monotony, politics or problem solving: 3 states of experiencing work

Oct 18 2024 10 mins  
We can experience different "states" when working. I distinguish 3 of them here: monotony, politics and problem solving. I argue that only the latter is fun (e.g. allows the experience of Flow to arise) and has the potential to cause progress.

Episode 166: On climate: philosophy of climate science, climate science and morality

Aug 18 2024 31 mins  
Connecting 3 things: philosophy of (climate) science, the actual climate science and the morality of it (i.e. "What should we do about it ?")

Episode 165: The myth of the Keynesian multiplier

Jul 10 2024 20 mins  
Can we get out of recessions through government spending ?

Episode 164: Philosophy of science : Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism

Jul 10 2024 21 mins  
Key concepts of Critical Rationalism: All knowledge is conjectural Realism Conjecture and refutation Fallibilism

Episode 163: SSIA a problem solving based sales approach

Jun 27 2024 16 mins  
What is the SSIA approach ? Why that approach and not some other ?

Episode 162: selling is a creative, problem solving process

Jun 26 2024 8 mins  
To sell is to create knowledge about what actions influence your prospect's subjective valuation most optimally

Episode 161: Philosophy of science : empiricism

Jun 26 2024 10 mins  
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

Episode 160: Philosophy of science : induction and the problem of induction

May 27 2024 13 mins  
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 beha

Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)

May 25 2024 19 mins  
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.

Episode 158: Why knowing how the customer thinks is not enough

May 23 2024 6 mins  
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