HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gravity, Lightning, Thomas Kuhn
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Hume(cid:859)s natu(cid:396)alisti(cid:272) p(cid:396)oje(cid:272)t: scientific investigation of the mind and how it works. Hu(cid:373)e(cid:859)s skeptical conclusion and (cid:862)solution(cid:863: our most important beliefs lack rational justification and we must accept that we are creatures of nature, not reason. We want to do something about it. Nicely illustrated by our investigation of faculties that hume treated as unproblematic: vision, memory, introspection: the things that hume took for granted, the starting point of his own investigation, are the things that we investigate. Mistakes (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t pe(cid:396)sist (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:396)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g as a g(cid:396)oup methods for catching errors. So to answer this question and/or defend our preference for trusting science when it conflicts with intuition, introspection, and folk ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455), (cid:449)e (cid:373)ust fa(cid:272)e kuh(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ge . Looking at the historical examples that supported that preconceived notion, and using those to illustrate and date things and hand out credit for discoveries. If we look at science and how it actually works, we have a very different picture.
