PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ghost Hunting, Pseudoscience, Marxism
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Lecture 22 ~ popper ~ conjectures and refutations. What is science: historical, truth, subject matter, methodological. Nature will be bound into service, hounded in her wandering and put on the rack and tortured. We want a way to identify pseudoscience from science. Do some pseudoscience : have a rich history, search for the truth, have a culture/society (ghost hunting, do experiments? e. What would it mean if we cant gure out the di erence between science and pseudoscience: we would be watching creationism in science. Demarcation problem: science vs pseudoscience vs non - science(history, religion) Karl popper (1902-2994: solved everything, philosopher of science. Einstein"s relativity: marxist theory of history, freud"s psychoanalysis, adler"s individual psychology. I felt that these other 3 theories, though posing as sciences, had in fact more in common with primitive myths than with science; that they resembled astrology rather than astronomy .
