PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Copernican Revolution
1 Oct 2016
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What popper and logical positivists agree on. Objectivity of knowledge is from how it"s justified not discovered. Sharply distinguish context of justification and context of discovery. Logical positivists (e. g. carnap, neurath, ayer) vs. logical empiricists (e. g. Logical positivists (e. g. carnap, neurath, ayer) vs. logical empiricists (e. g. carl. Logical positivists think : meaningful statements empirically verified, their criterion of verifiability can purify science of all subjective/metaphysical/value-laden elements. In context of justification, only meaningful statements preserves. Claim his criterion of falsifiability was criterion for scientific nature of statements. But still said scientific knowledge is paradigm for objective knowledge (falsification only happens in context of justification: kuhn and feyerabend. Professor of history of science at bereley w/ philosopher of science. Austrian that studied w/ karl popper in london. Convinced him difference b/w contexts of discovery + justification was illusion: created by fact that ppl got their idea of history of science from potted accounts in textbooks.
