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August 21, 2022August 21, 2022

Does Science Need Philosophy?

In this episode of Strange Science, we provide a introduction to the philosophy of science in order to ask a simple question: does science still need philosophy? We’ll examine scientific claims about observation, justification, heuristics, and scientific independence from social & political factors. While some really brilliant scientists, like Stephen Hawking & Neil deGrasse Tyson, think philosophy is useless to science, this video will show just a tiny portion of the philosophical presuppositions scientists rely on everyday while they’re sciencing.

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PHILOSOPHY

Citations:

French, Steven. Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy. Buy here!

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December 10, 2021December 24, 2021

Is Your Science Legit?

Legit question.

Here are the 6 Criteria you need to know in order to determine whether a theory is scientific or not.

We have to accept that searching for confirmations of our theory is actually really easy… too easy.
Confirmations should only be considered scientific if it is the result of a risky prediction, or a hypothesis that was meant to refute the theory, but instead confirmed it.
Every good scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
A theory which cannot be refuted or is irrefutable is not scientific.
Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify or refute it, not confirm it.
No ad hoc explanations of a theory to escape falsifying evidence. We can’t reinterpret our theory in such a way that it escapes refutation.

This list was created by philosopher Karl Popper.