Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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Kuhn (Part 1) Revolution, Crabs and Realism: Is There Progress Across the History of Science?
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In this first episode of a 4 part installment, I would like to look at scientific realism- the idea that science delivers truths about how the world actually ’is’ in reality. Under this view, science isn’t successful solely because it allows us to better cope with the world and our environment but because it’s theories are based on actual objective facts about reality. Scientific realism represents the standard non-philosophical understanding of science and it has quite a hold on our imagination. But to understand scientific realism, I want to look at the work of the man who has made the most famous argument against this account of science, Thomas Kuhn. I will explore Kuhn’s description of the vast distance between scientific revolutions as well as his incommensurability argument where he says science does not give a direct representation of reality and scientific progress cannot be measured across the scientific revolutions throughout our history.
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内容由Tony Bologna提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 Tony Bologna 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
In this first episode of a 4 part installment, I would like to look at scientific realism- the idea that science delivers truths about how the world actually ’is’ in reality. Under this view, science isn’t successful solely because it allows us to better cope with the world and our environment but because it’s theories are based on actual objective facts about reality. Scientific realism represents the standard non-philosophical understanding of science and it has quite a hold on our imagination. But to understand scientific realism, I want to look at the work of the man who has made the most famous argument against this account of science, Thomas Kuhn. I will explore Kuhn’s description of the vast distance between scientific revolutions as well as his incommensurability argument where he says science does not give a direct representation of reality and scientific progress cannot be measured across the scientific revolutions throughout our history.
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