STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Copernican Revolution, Inductive Reasoning, English Civil War

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Science, Technology, and Society
• Course: STS200
• Professor: Tihamer Richard Kover

Document Summary

Previously, during aristotelian times, there was a sort of appeal to authority. Discovery of the north american continent not mentioned in the bible at all. Inductive reasoning (bottom up): we move from particular instances to formulate a conclusion. Deduction- (top down): we have one of two certain premises and from this we move to a certain conclusion. We move from a set of rst principles and deduce a conclusion. Mathematics: the paradigmatic case of this type of reasoning. Mechanistic philosophy: want to get the casual mechanism underlying the visible world! But we don"t have direct experience of those casual mechanisms! Set up a series of observable controlled experiments where he conclusions would be obvious to all. Contra aristotle - arti ce had to stand in for nature. Surely others could come up with other conclusions. These questions seem to tie into the hermeneutics of suspicion. Advisor to queen elizabeth i and king james i.