Back to the Stone Age1 Heinä 2024

K. Brad Wray: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Thomas Kuhn, and Scientific Realism #6

Do you like philosophising? Then this conversation is for YOU! 🫵🏻

Brad Wray (https://shorturl.at/gY9Oh) is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, and together we tackle deep philosophical questions.

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Outline

00:35 - Philosophy of Science

01:17 - Definition of knowledge

01:52 - How do scientific discoveries shape our understanding of reality?

02:26 - Metaphysics

09:56 - God in Philosophy

11:41 - Limitation of human knowledge

13:52 - Theory of everything

19:45 - How is knowledge acquired?

29:24 - Role of epistemic communities for knowledge acquisition

34:40 - Disruptive science and increase of scientific papers

46:03 - Academic vs technological development

51:38 - Artificial intelligence and technology

01:00:44 - Collaborating with other researchers

01:04:15 - Thomas Kuhn

01:06:02 - Paradigm in science

01:13:30 - Kuhn cycle

01:20:19 - Revolutionising paradigm shifts: Copernican revolution and Plate tectonics

01:32:15 - Incommensurability in scientific revolutions

01:40:18 - Planck's principle

01:45:55 - Role of theories in understanding reality

01:52:11 - Is scientific progress linear?

01:52:55 - Scientific realism

01:58:25 - Antirealist perspective

02:05:40 - Death

02:09:25 - Nuclear weapons

02:16:27 - Conclusion

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