SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Kuhn, Philosophy Of Science, Observational Error
21 Jan 2019
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A scientific investigation of the mind and how it works. Our most important beliefs lack rational justification, we must accept that we are creatures of nature, not reason. Hume hasn"t given us the full story; there are more psychologically natural factors of our psychology. Nicely illustrated by our faculties that hume treated as unproblematic: vision, memory, introspection. But decision is not to trust what some cognitive faculty seems to be telling us is a decision to trust something else instead. In science we solve epistemic problems collectively that we cannot solve individually through the help of powerful methods (scientific method) that we use to generate broadly accurate beliefs about otherwise inaccessible parts/ aspects of the natural world. Argues that naturalistic investigation of science itself reveals the usual picture we have of what science is and what it does to be seriously misleading.
