TTC - Philosophy of Science - Jeffrey L. Kasser,

Written by Jeffrey L. Kasser,
Format: MP3

“Science can’t be free of philosophy any more than baseball can be free of physics.” With this bold intellectual swing for the fences, philosopher Jeffrey L. Kasser launches an ambitious and exciting inquiry into what makes science science, using the tools of philosophy to ask:

Why is science so successful?
Is there such a thing as the scientific method?
How do we distinguish science from pseudoscience?
Is science rational, cumulative, and progressive?

Focusing his investigation on the vigorous debate over the nature of science that unfolded during the past 100 years, Professor Kasser covers important philosophers such as Karl Popper, W. V. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Carl Hempel, Nelson Goodman, and Bas van Fraassen.

All of these thinkers responded in one way or another to logical positivism, the dominant movement influencing the philosophy of science during the first half of the 20 th century. Logical positivism attempted to ground science exclusively in what could be known through direct experience and logic.

It sounds reasonable, but logical positivism proved to be riddled with serious problems, and its eventual demise is an object lesson in how truly difficult it is—perhaps impossible—to secure the logical foundations of a subject that seems so unassailably logical: science.

36 Lectures
30 minutes/lecture

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Creation Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:34:11 -0400
This is a Multifile Torrent
01 - Science and Philosophy.mp3 23.72 MBs
02 - Popper and the Problem of Demarcation.mp3 21.46 MBs
03 - Further Thoughts on Demarcation.mp3 22.53 MBs
04 - Einstein, Measurement, and Meaning.mp3 22.27 MBs
05 - Classical Empiricism.mp3 19.92 MBs
06 - Logical Positivism and Verifiability.mp3 20.81 MBs
07 - Logical Positivism, Science, and Meaning.mp3 21.5 MBs
08 - Holism.mp3 21.46 MBs
09 - Discovery and Justification.mp3 19.3 MBs
10 - Induction as Illegitimate.mp3 20.3 MBs
11 - Some Solutions and a New Riddle.mp3 20.53 MBs
12 - Instances and Consequences.mp3 19.18 MBs
13 - Kuhn and the Challenge of History.mp3 20.59 MBs
14 - Revolutions and Rationality.mp3 20.98 MBs
15 - Assessment of Kuhn.mp3 21.87 MBs
16 - For and Against Method.mp3 21.6 MBs
17 - Sociology, Postmodernism, and Science Wars.mp3 21.26 MBs
18 - (How) Does Science Explain.mp3 19.58 MBs
19 - Putting the Cause Back in ‘Because’.mp3 19.04 MBs
20 - Probability, Pragmatics, and Unification.mp3 20.78 MBs
21 - Laws and Regularities.mp3 20.92 MBs
22 - Laws and Necessity.mp3 21 MBs
23 - Reduction and Progress.mp3 20.97 MBs
24 - Reduction and Physicalism.mp3 20.97 MBs
25 - New Views of Meaning and Reference.mp3 21.02 MBs
26 - Scientific Realism.mp3 20.77 MBs
27 - Success, Experience, and Explanation.mp3 20.78 MBs
28 - Realism and Naturalism.mp3 20.57 MBs
29 - Values and Objectivity.mp3 20.38 MBs
30 - Probability.mp3 20.95 MBs
31 - Bayesianism.mp3 21.02 MBs
32 - Problems with Bayesianism.mp3 21.96 MBs
33 - Entropy and Explanation.mp3 19.79 MBs
34 - Species and Reality.mp3 21.27 MBs
35 - The Elimination of Persons.mp3 21.34 MBs
36 - Philosophy and Science.mp3 21.49 MBs
Philosophy of Science.pdf 1.63 MBs
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