Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science: Section 1

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

[Redshift313]

@aaronstately Nope... The Scientific Explanation is a... Secret !!! LOL

If you want absolutes go to Religion !!! LOL

The only aspect of Human Epistemic Knowledge that has NOT changed is 1+1=2...

other then that it's wide open.

[aaronstately]

@Redshift313 Well if a paradigm does explain the origin of the universe....could you share this with me because i was not aware science had come to know how the universe came into being? also there is a thing called a Paradigm shift... So not even the paradigm it self is safe from change and correction.

I really can not believe you think science has the answer to how the universe got here? ..are you for real?

[Redshift313]

@aaronstately A Scientific Theory IS the explanation... a Paradigm the working model.

The Paradigm implies an explanation or at least a cause.

[aaronstately]

@Redshift313 A paradigm is very different from that of a working explanation.

[Redshift313]

@aaronstately Science HAS provided a working Paradigm... that is in use now and until someone comes up with a better one. To think that Science has NOT provided the How Paradigm... is ignorant of Human Epistemic Knowledge.

[aaronstately]

@Redshift313 Science so far has not provided the answer to how the universe got here.

And to presume it will is arrogant.

[laysampson1231c]

Odd responses on this video once more.

[Redshift313]

@philsci1 David Hume said... "There is No such thing as the Supernatural... there is only the Natural World and Human Ignorance trying to explain it".

Example; look at Lighting... earlier in Human understanding... we attributed Lighting to Zeus. That explanation offered a lot but provided little... much like Religion... offers everything but provides nothing.

Science can explain both HOW Lighting occurs and How the Universe got here... without the need for the Supernatural.

[TheDavid2222]

@philsci1 I don't think metaphysics exists for the same purpose as science. Science only looks at the factical. I think I'm using the right word here, but I'm not sure. I'm curious to hear your opinion on the reasons for metaphysics in comparison to the sciences.

[philsci1]

more such extraordinary scenarios would at least make methodological supernaturalism the first choice methodology in Science (further one can argue that many such extraordinary violations could be seen as corroborating the existence of some sort of Creator - existing from eternity - in such a way that we can even talk of a provisional truth; of course, as anyone minimally accustomed with Philosophy knows well, defining knowledge does not require epistemic certainty).