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My project, CMS, is depicted by this picture and has an abstract in:

Introducing Constructive Methodological Solipsism

CMS is a monistic verificationist method for determining probabilities, truths and decisions. 

The probability is determined from all the available evidence, and only from it, by means of the absolute non-conclusive verifications of the contemplated theories, given the available evidence. 

The degree of truth of a theory takes place when all the evidence that could be relevant to the theory is exhausted experimentally; when then this happens, the degree of truth of a theory equals the probability of the theory. 

Finally, the decisions are determined on the basis of the subjective happiness and its degree of truth, over all future time. 

CMS is a method for solving scientific and philosophical problems alike. Moreover, it fits and justifies the common sense, and extends common sense with a mathematical precision by means of few common-sense principles.  It could be split into 3 theories:

1. Theory of PDC Prescriptive Degree of Certainty:

     PDC 1-page-summary

     PDC 17-page-summary

     PDC 26-page-summary (a.k.a. Explaining a Simple Physical World)

2. Theory of PDT Prescriptive Degree of Truth:

      My PhD dissertation is partly about this

      Truth Too Fails

3. Theory of PMPO Prescriptive Maximum-Pleasure Option:

      PMPO 8-page-summary (a.k.a. Pleasure Theory)

      Reformulation of the Expected-Utility Rule

 


 

"More (or less) entertaining" writings:

 

Two Anti-Putnam Putnam-Style Parables

 

Hospitals without Doctors

 

The Handicapped Prisoner's Dilemma

 

Gambling Is Bad

 

Sixteen Arguments against Bayesianism

 


 

My dissertation in theoretical physics examined the development of the mathematical notion of stability, mainly through Newton, Laplace, Poincaré, Liapunov and Kolmogorov.  In the appendix (soon into English) I proposed a possible deterministic model for the Hydrogen atom that could lead to the same radial probability density theorized by Quantum Mechanics (same within the present-day experimental error): a philosophically interesting example of underdetermination of theory by evidence.

 

These are the books I read when I was little.

And here are some quotations.