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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.You ask what I mean by science and philosophy. Isn’t that part of the whole point of the discussion? The demarcation problem shows the... -
pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.A good paper from the aforementioned John D. Norton on the flaws of falsibiability.
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Newton was troubled by his own idea that gravity was a “force.” He wondered what kind of “force” could reach across space to form...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.The relevance to the topic of this thread is obvious. Blind ideological commitment to a certain scientific world view may hamper...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.One of several ways to think of a philosopher of science’s relation to science is that of a critic to a work of art, say a play. The...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Another useful philosophical tool for scientific investigations is the Duhem-Quine thesis, which holds that scientific theories cannot...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.It’s puzzling that you would revert to disparaging philosophy when this thread, which you yourself started, is about the philosophy of...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Absolutely. Newton — and it seems, only Newton, in the history of the world — had the insight of earth accelerating toward a falling...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.In one of his last books, maybe his last, Stephen Hawking advocated for “model dependent realism,” which is really a form of...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.I thought philosophy bakes no bread? Einstein, when asked what he’d say if his relativity theory were falsified, replied: “Then I...
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pood replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.You were an engineer. In engineering you can get neat, simple, correct solutions to well-posed problems. You can’t get that in history...
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Do you mean to tell me that your customary chain-of-consciousness word salad in this thread is supposed to be some sort of grandiose...
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pood replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Note also that Popperian falsification is itself a philosophical idea.
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pood replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Some in this thread have seemed to argue that nothing in Galatians is original, all derivative, thereby disproving divine inspiration...
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pood replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Popper was wrong, and few scientists today think his rigid criterion of falsification carries much weight. Philosophy goes on, will...
