SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Billiard Ball, Karl Popper

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: S T A N F O R D, P.B A R R E T T, J.

Document Summary

Hume vs. descartes: a tale of two skeptics continued. : there is no way he could find out that jumping into a pond would drown him just by thinking about it, he"d have to experience it to know ex. Hume"s skeptical solution : not reason that allows us to make inductive inferences that"s not how we form beliefs, all inferences from experience are from custom/habit/instinct, how our minds are built to work not subject to rational control. Mind automatically led to expect the 2nd thing when we experience the 1st thing custom: principle of our psychological nature: moral: we are creatures of nature, not reason built to respond to our experiences just like animals. We can explain our tendencies without being able to justify them. Responses to hume"s poi: hume"s conception of reason is too narrow, karl popper: no need to save induction, we use hypothetico-deduction instead, p. f.