06_chapter 2
... natures or cause, but there is no clear explanation of this doctrine. Like Aristotle, Bacon also considered that true science is knowledge of causes. Aristotle's distinction of four causes is apparently accepted by Bacon because for him this distinction is a correct account of the different ways in ...
... natures or cause, but there is no clear explanation of this doctrine. Like Aristotle, Bacon also considered that true science is knowledge of causes. Aristotle's distinction of four causes is apparently accepted by Bacon because for him this distinction is a correct account of the different ways in ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... ii.Basic claim: sovereignty of natural science within its proper domain gives it no claim to hegemony over other domains of discourse and inquiry. In particular, the human, hermeneutic sciences properly employ different methods, and use different concepts, in pursuit of what is and must be recogniza ...
... ii.Basic claim: sovereignty of natural science within its proper domain gives it no claim to hegemony over other domains of discourse and inquiry. In particular, the human, hermeneutic sciences properly employ different methods, and use different concepts, in pursuit of what is and must be recogniza ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical equivalence (of incompatible theories), implicit definition, holism and conceptu ...
... clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the meaning of conventionalism in general, and Poincaré’s original version of it, in particular. Nonetheless, notions such as the under-determination (of theory), empirical equivalence (of incompatible theories), implicit definition, holism and conceptu ...
lecture1-Science-Knowledge
... “It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter how tiny a region of time … So I have often made the hypothesis that ...
... “It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter how tiny a region of time … So I have often made the hypothesis that ...
- Philsci
... the only figure in Coffa's survey who was also a practicing empirical scientist. The sciences he practiced were planetary physics, geology and chemistry, not psychology. The arguments of the transcendental aesthetic and elsewhere in the first Critique may (or, I reluctantly suppose, may not) have ha ...
... the only figure in Coffa's survey who was also a practicing empirical scientist. The sciences he practiced were planetary physics, geology and chemistry, not psychology. The arguments of the transcendental aesthetic and elsewhere in the first Critique may (or, I reluctantly suppose, may not) have ha ...
lecture1-Science
... basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowledge is built upon not only reasoning about input information, but also on intentional choices, dependent on value systems stored and organi ...
... basic cognitive instrument. All cognition is embodied cognition, in both microorganisms and humans (Gärdenfors, Stuart). In more complex cognitive agents, knowledge is built upon not only reasoning about input information, but also on intentional choices, dependent on value systems stored and organi ...
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism and Mind as a Non
... not because of a lack of substance to the problems themselves. It is only when an adequate substrate theory has been formulated, (or while it is being formulated), that the problems will take on clear and logical form, and solutions will be cogent. There are clear precedents in the history of scienc ...
... not because of a lack of substance to the problems themselves. It is only when an adequate substrate theory has been formulated, (or while it is being formulated), that the problems will take on clear and logical form, and solutions will be cogent. There are clear precedents in the history of scienc ...
Kant on wheels - UChicago Philosophy
... extraordinary density of citation. (The bibliography contains about 600 publications, including 44 by Fuller himself, and the text more than 900 mostly discursive footnotes). The tone is almost unremittingly hostile to Kuhn; in a couple of places it is offensive. For Fuller, the point of studying sc ...
... extraordinary density of citation. (The bibliography contains about 600 publications, including 44 by Fuller himself, and the text more than 900 mostly discursive footnotes). The tone is almost unremittingly hostile to Kuhn; in a couple of places it is offensive. For Fuller, the point of studying sc ...
Phil Rees: Scientific Anti
... The same Cardinal Belarmine had earlier condemned Giordano Bruno to be publicly burned in Rome in the year 1600. Bruno was a philosopher of nature, supporter of Copernicus, and is regarded by many as a martyr for freedom of thought and modern science. ...
... The same Cardinal Belarmine had earlier condemned Giordano Bruno to be publicly burned in Rome in the year 1600. Bruno was a philosopher of nature, supporter of Copernicus, and is regarded by many as a martyr for freedom of thought and modern science. ...
Cosmological Certainty
... to a process of ferocious scepticism; every effort is made to refute them by means of observation and experiment. When a theory is refuted, it becomes clear that something better must be thought up, in turn to be subjected to ferocious attempted empirical refutation, science making progress in knowl ...
... to a process of ferocious scepticism; every effort is made to refute them by means of observation and experiment. When a theory is refuted, it becomes clear that something better must be thought up, in turn to be subjected to ferocious attempted empirical refutation, science making progress in knowl ...
Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... to a process of ferocious scepticism; every effort is made to refute them by means of observation and experiment. When a theory is refuted, it becomes clear that something better must be thought up, in turn to be subjected to ferocious attempted empirical refutation, science making progress in know ...
... to a process of ferocious scepticism; every effort is made to refute them by means of observation and experiment. When a theory is refuted, it becomes clear that something better must be thought up, in turn to be subjected to ferocious attempted empirical refutation, science making progress in know ...
lecture2-CriticalThinking
... change of what is changed - agency, nonliving or living, acting as the sources of change. The final cause or telos is the purpose or end that something is supposed to serve. Omitted from present day causal explanations. ...
... change of what is changed - agency, nonliving or living, acting as the sources of change. The final cause or telos is the purpose or end that something is supposed to serve. Omitted from present day causal explanations. ...
Philosophy of Science Summary Chapter 1: Rationalism and
... Francis Bacon: no scientific experiments, but wrote everything down clearly. Literary gift. Warned against the idols (characteristic errors) that deceive your perception: o Idols of the tribe: innate, shared by all human beings. Jumping to premature conclusion. We tend to focus exclusively on the ev ...
... Francis Bacon: no scientific experiments, but wrote everything down clearly. Literary gift. Warned against the idols (characteristic errors) that deceive your perception: o Idols of the tribe: innate, shared by all human beings. Jumping to premature conclusion. We tend to focus exclusively on the ev ...
positivism, naturalism, and anti
... of generality involved. Further, it is claimed that there is no important difference between explanation and prediction. Both must proceed by deduction. The difference is either one of the time at which this deduction is carried out, in relation to the event, or of the attitude or interest of the s ...
... of generality involved. Further, it is claimed that there is no important difference between explanation and prediction. Both must proceed by deduction. The difference is either one of the time at which this deduction is carried out, in relation to the event, or of the attitude or interest of the s ...
science
... compatible with other statements. The truth of a sentence just consists in its belonging to a system of coherent statements. The most well-known adherents to such a theory was Spinoza (1632-77), Leibniz (1646-1716) and Hegel (1770-1831). Characteristically they all believed that truths about the wor ...
... compatible with other statements. The truth of a sentence just consists in its belonging to a system of coherent statements. The most well-known adherents to such a theory was Spinoza (1632-77), Leibniz (1646-1716) and Hegel (1770-1831). Characteristically they all believed that truths about the wor ...
L13-421-15-11-16-15
... throughout the study of logic. It can hardly be said to involve reasoning; for reasoning reaches a conclusion, and asserts it to be true however matters may seem; while in Phenomenology there is no assertion except that there are certain seemings; and even these are not, and cannot be asserted, beca ...
... throughout the study of logic. It can hardly be said to involve reasoning; for reasoning reaches a conclusion, and asserts it to be true however matters may seem; while in Phenomenology there is no assertion except that there are certain seemings; and even these are not, and cannot be asserted, beca ...
My first university was in my home town, Durban, in the mid
... increasingly externalist, more so even than Michael. I now of think of meaning entirely in terms of links to external items, and as nothing to do with our subjective ideas. --Throughout the 1980s I was in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. It was then a great centre fo ...
... increasingly externalist, more so even than Michael. I now of think of meaning entirely in terms of links to external items, and as nothing to do with our subjective ideas. --Throughout the 1980s I was in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. It was then a great centre fo ...
Lecture 1
... for methodological legitimization in terms of an alternative model. It is this need which motivated them to resurrect the method of hypothesis. In their attempt to develop the method of hypothesis, these thinkers produced works of immense significance. Their works were followed by those of Jean Sene ...
... for methodological legitimization in terms of an alternative model. It is this need which motivated them to resurrect the method of hypothesis. In their attempt to develop the method of hypothesis, these thinkers produced works of immense significance. Their works were followed by those of Jean Sene ...
Διαφάνεια 1
... Ethics of science Definition: Ethics of science is a new form of normative ethics that attempts to establish/ introduce into the scientific area certain principles, cognitive as well as ethical, with which scientists are enabled to confront ethical dilemmas and moral problems that may emerge before ...
... Ethics of science Definition: Ethics of science is a new form of normative ethics that attempts to establish/ introduce into the scientific area certain principles, cognitive as well as ethical, with which scientists are enabled to confront ethical dilemmas and moral problems that may emerge before ...
INDUCTION
... GOES BEYOND the evidence found in the premises. • The conclusion is made probable on the basis of the truth of the ...
... GOES BEYOND the evidence found in the premises. • The conclusion is made probable on the basis of the truth of the ...
Bold hypothesis by Popper
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
The “Scientific Method”
... in accordance with the theory. However, as Gjertsen observes, if the precession of the orbit had been measured in 1914 (as it nearly was), Einstein’s theory could not have used the data as such a proof: it would merely have been another observation that the hypothesis would have to account for. A sy ...
... in accordance with the theory. However, as Gjertsen observes, if the precession of the orbit had been measured in 1914 (as it nearly was), Einstein’s theory could not have used the data as such a proof: it would merely have been another observation that the hypothesis would have to account for. A sy ...
Class Notes, Part 1
... Science is empirical: the ultimate criterion for judging a scientific theory is its agreement with the empirical facts. Science is rational: scientists’ judgments in general are influenced by empirical facts and logical inferences from them- not by “extraneous” social, psychological, or political mo ...
... Science is empirical: the ultimate criterion for judging a scientific theory is its agreement with the empirical facts. Science is rational: scientists’ judgments in general are influenced by empirical facts and logical inferences from them- not by “extraneous” social, psychological, or political mo ...
Test fall 2006 for TOK1024
... The project of the logical positivists and Karl R Popper was to draw a line between what they called real science one on hand and on the other hand, metaphysics and / or pseudoscience. The positivists suggested the principle of verification but Karl Popper criticized their contribution and instead s ...
... The project of the logical positivists and Karl R Popper was to draw a line between what they called real science one on hand and on the other hand, metaphysics and / or pseudoscience. The positivists suggested the principle of verification but Karl Popper criticized their contribution and instead s ...