HPS100H1 Lecture 7: HPS100 Lecture 7
9 Jan 2020
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History and philosophy of science lecture 7- aristotelian- Medieval worldview: so far, we"ve been concerned with the process of scientific change. Ex: with the process of transitions in the mosaic. What"s the difference between science and pseudoscience: now we are going to focus on the content of the mosaic at different time periods. We are going to start with the aristotelian-medieval worldview. What picture of science would you have if you didn"t know anything about science before 18th century: suppose that the aristotelian-medieval mosaic never existed. Suppose actual science started sometime in the 18th century. Even nowadays in popular literature, most of them ignore the aristotelian-medieval literature, most of them ignore the aristotelian-medieval science. And because they ignore that science, they arrive at a very simplistic image, very simplistic notion of science. The notion that there is a universal and fixed method of science and it does the job.
