How can a work on the history and philosophy of science be outdated?
Mainly 50 years of new history happened. People came up with concepts like “evidence-based medicine” and a bunch of concepts about how science is supposed to progress.
Philosophy is more likely to change, particularly as scientists respond to Kuhn, but largely, they didn’t.
After dealing a bit more with HPS (history and philosophy of science) I get the impression like logical positivism simple ignored the arguments made against it. The New Atheist crowd simply reject criticism of logical positivism as obstruce postmodernism but I never heard someone actually engage the kind of arguments that Kuhn makes.
After I wrote the post I found a lectures series by Hakob Barseghyan. He makes a lot of sense and yet, for some reason HPS isn’t in popular culture.
I don’t understand why HPS doesn’t get taught in high schools.
People came up with concepts like “evidence-based medicine”
That’s not a new concept. That’s a straightforward application of the scientific method (and some common sense) to the area which stubbornly resisted and continues to resist it.
That’s a straightforward application of the scientific method (and some common sense) to the area which stubbornly resisted and continues to resist it.
I think both Kuhn and Barseghyan would say that there isn’t a single thing that’s “the scientific method” and that believing in such a thing isn’t defensible when you look at the history of science.
Mainly 50 years of new history happened. People came up with concepts like “evidence-based medicine” and a bunch of concepts about how science is supposed to progress.
After dealing a bit more with HPS (history and philosophy of science) I get the impression like logical positivism simple ignored the arguments made against it. The New Atheist crowd simply reject criticism of logical positivism as obstruce postmodernism but I never heard someone actually engage the kind of arguments that Kuhn makes.
After I wrote the post I found a lectures series by Hakob Barseghyan. He makes a lot of sense and yet, for some reason HPS isn’t in popular culture. I don’t understand why HPS doesn’t get taught in high schools.
That’s not a new concept. That’s a straightforward application of the scientific method (and some common sense) to the area which stubbornly resisted and continues to resist it.
I think both Kuhn and Barseghyan would say that there isn’t a single thing that’s “the scientific method” and that believing in such a thing isn’t defensible when you look at the history of science.