Class Notes for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of Toronto St. George (UTSG)

Week 4 lecture - mechanism of scientific change. Milder: no universal and fixed method of science. Researchers gi(cid:448)ing the pill don"t kno(cid:44

Nowadays, we believe that the processes in the brain produce psychological phenomena. Individually, we may have different views on the subject. What we

We are not in a position to know. Although our theories about the natures of unobservable entities can be false, our knowledge of the relations between

Questions: what is the difference between science and non-science, what are the characteristics of a scientific theory, what are the characteristics of

Myths of popular science: ancient greeks, plato everything made of little triangles, aristotle world is at the centre of the universe, hippocrates 4 hu

The mind is a product of brain processes. There are two substances - matter and mind. Material objects cannot exist without some underlying mental stru

Intro: while in formal science, infallible knowledge is achievable all empirical knowledge is inevitably fallible because sensations, induction and the