SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Philosophy Of Science, Observational Error, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

First step to figuring out how we come about knowledge & rational justification. Some things are very bad for hume"s naturalistic study. Reliance on introspection, memory, & first person authority -> now know that is not reliable. The skeptic essentially wins -> must learn to live with explanations rather than justifications for our beliefs. Hume"s naturalistic project: a scientific investigation of the mind & how it works. We are finding out things through our own naturalistic study. Home"s skeptical conclusion & solution : our most important beliefs lack rational justification, we must accept that we are creatures of nature, not reason. Decision not to trust what some cognitive faculty seems to be telling us is a decision to trust something else instead. Argues that we cannot simply accept that we are creatures of nature, not reason. Want to be able to overcome issues that we have in formulating our beliefs.