6. Karl Popper & Critical Rationalism - The empirical base

Interactive Zoom lecture delivered by Jeremy Shearmur on July 4, 2021.

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How to cite this YouTube video:

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Karl Popper & Critical Rationalism is a course on the philosophy of Karl Popper designed and presented by Jeremy Shearmur. The course consists of 22 lectures:

1. Introduction (Part I)
2. Introduction (Part II)
3. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
4. Conjectures and Refutations and later developments
5. Popper and conventionalism
6. The empirical basis
7. The scope of reason
8. Popper Kuhn and Lakatos 1
9. Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos 2
10. Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos 3
11. The scope of reason again
12. Realism
13. Reduction
14. Biology
15. Determinism
16. The Mind-Body Problem
17. Popper and Marxism
18. Popper and politics
19. Popper and history
20. Ethics
21. Aesthetics
22. Karl Popper the person

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If you feed them stones instead of bread, the young people will revolt,
even if in so doing they mistake a baker for a stone-thrower.
(Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, 1979)

[jimmyfaulkner]

Great video. What are your thoughts on Kuhn’s statement that “it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition to a science.” Do you think Kuhn was correct in his view on this? Are there examples from the history of science and the philosophy of science that can show whether this is true or not?