Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science: Section 5

Bryan Magee talks with Hilary Putnam about the philosophy of science.

Section 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3sfrK5B4E

Section 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAP4E3EpedE

Section 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNPZDLEba44

Section 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KzTMStETRE

Section 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MquP2kIvsMQ

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bryan
• Magee
• Hilary
• Putnam
• Science
• Philosophy
• Logic
• Logical
• Positivism

[RoGhrianadh]

I enjoyed these videos immensely. Thanks much for the opportunity to see them.  I love philosophy, but the only college course I took on it was a historical introduction to the philosophy of science, so I had to keep referencing my old books, and I loved it :D Subscribing to your channel so I remember to come back to see what more there is to see.

[AnnaAgainstAtheists]

Excellent and compelling viewing, and I just had to watch all 5 episodes, so 5 stars and favourited, and this is undoubtedly YT at its very best. Both Magee and Putnam are terrific at explaining complicated ideas.

[bribribri56]

really informative and interesting

[benevolencedaft]

yeah nah it's all bloody...yeah.

[iiNDiTC]

@tecteh1 You would be surprised to now that Mr.Punham began to study Jewish ritual and Hebrew, and became more Jewishly interested, identified, and active. In 1994, Hilary Putnam celebrated a belated Bar Mitzvah service. His wife had a Bat Mitzvah service four years later.

[TheDavid2222]

I never tried very hard in my math and science courses. I think this is because they discouraged creative thinking and were as authoritative as humanly possible. I loved my high school history, english, and music classes because they allowed me some time for contemplation. In math and science I did nothing but regurgitate facts. I feel that I could have been a great student in these areas, but I was ill suited for the setting that I had to learn under. I'm sure some of you feel the same.

[tecteh1]

This is not a video for creationists. Its a logical and philosophical conversation. Enjoy it or. get out out of here and go on with your praying.

[strangetranceoffaith]

Very very nice, When they were talking about the question of mathematics being inherent or a construct it struck me that we tend to impose and look for uniformity in nature. We mow our lawns and make them tidy and yet without our imposition the uniformity is ephemeral and at the finer measurement level it is ephemeral as well. We get counter intuitive results at the quantum level. 1 = 2 superstates? Maybe the constant is a variable?

[TheShadowofsparta]

wonderful as usual.flame0430,you should be proud.

[NosajThong]

@GuyTM swap your conception of "creation" for the word DEFINE. a bit like how one post can create mumbo-jumbo, and another can define it.

[fiesta181]

Thank you very much to you too, flame0430!