PHILOS 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Thomas Kuhn, Pseudoscience, Logical Positivism
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L e c t u r e 1 7. O u t l i n e: the future is female (?, open questions, log-lines for the 5 units, ta accapella death-match, last minute extra-credit opportunity. Course descriptions with a lot of questions in them (philosophy) Combination of methodology with body of knowl- edge. Empirical (learned through observation and expe- rience) and looks at the outside world ~ philoso- phy does not seem to be empirical. The philosophy hat vs. the science hat. How exactly does science differ from other forms of in- quiry (history, philosophy, etc. ) Historical archives that people analyze and try to account for the explanations of written documents and claims. The truth of what is going on and why is it going on. One side of the argument cannot exist without the other. If you don"t have humanities, you do not have the fundamental questions of science to ask for.
