HPS250H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paul Feyerabend, Probabilism, Scientific Method
17 Apr 2016
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Thoery assessment: deermine theory is better by: This is what scientists actually do as opposed to saying it. Sometimes referred to as research technique (set of procedures for theory construction (generation, invention) (should not be seen as this though, as methods don"t. Have to do with the creation of theories: what are requirements of scientific method? (how can they be explicated (explicitly stated)) Feyerabend: said there"s no universal and unchanging method of science, showed. The 3 explinations of each method don"t make sense. The 3 explanations of method contradict themselves or have been proven wrong: probabilism. A new hypothesis should not question the evidence, but should conform with it. Contradiction in history of science, there have been many episodes when new theory was accepted without any confirmed novel predictions. Popper wants to show that scientific theories may change, but the criteria for what determines is scientific or not stays universally the same.
