Hilary Putnam on Non-Scientific Knowledge (1998)

Hilary Putnam gives a talk on non-scientific knowledge in 1998 as part of the Gavin David Young Lecture Series at the University of Adelaide. Among other things, he discusses the attempt to demarcate between science and non-science, the entanglement of facts and values, relativism, and the notion of objectivity, including objectivity regarding values.

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions to many areas, including the philosophy of mind, logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, the philosophy of science and mathematics.

00:00 Aim of Talk
05:13 Demarcation between Science & Non-Science
15:45 Epistemic Values & Relativism
22:11 Reliabilist Epistemology
27:17 Objectivity
37:57 Fact/Value Entanglement

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