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Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science (Citizens Only)
On Conjectures and Refutations (1963), the first three essays. What is science, and how is it different than pseudo-science? From philosophy? Is philosophy just pseudo-science, or proto-science, or what? Popper thinks that all legitimate inquiry is about solving real problems, and scientific theories are those that are potentially falsifiable: they make definitely Continue Reading …
Topic for #82: Karl Popper on Scientific Method
Listen now to Dylan Casey introduce these essays. On 9/3/13 we'll be discussing the first three essays in Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963). The book is a retrospective in part, presenting the ideas in the philosophy of science that had established his reputation back in the 1930s. The first essay, "On the Sources of Knowledge and Continue Reading …