Karl Popper | Conjectures and Refutations | What is science? |Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

In this 1962 book, Austrian philosopher of science Karl Popper (1902-1994) discusses the nature of science, pseudoscience, scientific confirmation and his theory of falsification.

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Timestamps:
00:29 The text
02:43 What is science? Is it content? Method? Mindset?
05:12 Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience
07:12 Empirical vs. non-empirical methods
08:35 A positive example: Einstein's theory of relativity
09:00 Marx, Freud and Adler
10:14 Einstein's theory of relativity
12:40 Marx, Freud and Adler
14:00 Explanatory Power
15:12 Conversion or revelation
18:06 Easy confirmation
21:10 Falsification-putting things to the test
24:30 Popper's scientific checklist
24:52 1. It is easy to find confirmation if that is what we look for
25:29 2. Make risky predictions
26:27 3. Good scientific theories are a prohibition
27:11 4. Non-refutable theories are not scientific
28:09 5. Tests should be attempts to falsify the theory
28:40 6. Confirming evidence should not count
29:36 7. Ad hoc auxiliary assumptions are evidence of a failed theory
31:11 Falsifiability, refutability and testability
31:30 Revisiting theories of the past
32:20 David Hume
34:09 Immanuel Kant

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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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