A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic.
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A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic.
@KMaca5
Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?
On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast
20 minutes 42 seconds
3 years ago
Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?
In this first episode of a 4 part installment, I would like to look at scientific realism- the idea that science delivers truths about how the world actually ’is’ in reality. Under this view, science isn’t successful solely because it allows us to better cope with the world and our environment but because it’s theories are based on actual objective facts about reality.
Scientific realism represents the standard non-philosophical understanding of science and it has quite a hold on our imagination. But to understand scientific realism, I want to look at the work of the man who has made the most famous argument against this account of science, Thomas Kuhn. I will explore Kuhn’s description of the vast distance between scientific revolutions as well as his incommensurability argument where he says science does not give a direct representation of reality and scientific progress cannot be measured across the scientific revolutions throughout our history.
On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast
A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic.
@KMaca5
