Continuing from Part One on "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" (1970). We try to clarify the difference between dogmatic falsificationism, the view commonly attributed to Karl Popper whereby a disconfirming experiment is taken to definitively refute a scientific theory, with methodological falsificationism, which is what Lakatos attributes Continue Reading …
Strange Bedfellows? Kuhn & Intelligent Design
[From Seth Crownover, Friend of the Podcast] If we got anything from the last episode it's that Thomas Kuhn is sort of a big deal and for good reason. His picture of scientific progress as a human rather than divine endeavor is, it seems to me, plainly true in a general sense if not in all the specifics (the world itself changes when there's a paradigm shift? Really?) That Continue Reading …
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962. Does scientific knowledge simply accumulate as we learn more and more, coming closer and closer to a full and truthful picture of the world? Kuhn says no! Instead, each scientific sub-culture has its own "paradigm," or model for what constitutes legitimate science, which includes what problems to study, Continue Reading …
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962. Does scientific knowledge simply accumulate as we learn more and more, coming closer and closer to a full and truthful picture of the world? Kuhn says no! Instead, each scientific sub-culture has its own "paradigm," or model for what constitutes legitimate science, which includes what problems to study, Continue Reading …
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn's thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Read more about the topic and get the book. Listen to the episode. A transcript is available on our Citizen site's Free Stuff page. Continue Reading …
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn's thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Read more about the topic and get the book. Listen to the episode. Read a transcript. Continue Reading …
Topic for #86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
Listen now to Dylan's introduction to the text. Science is just us accumulating more and more knowledge and getting a more and more accurate picture of the world, right? Not according to Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. Yes, there's progress, in terms of better and better answers to a given question, more and more data collected in Continue Reading …