PREMIUM-Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: PREMIUM-Episode 82: Karl Popper on Science
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:30:18
• Published: 2013-09-25 00:28

On Popper's Conjectures and Refutations (1963), the first three essays.

What is science, and how is it different than pseudo-science? From philosophy? Is philosophy just pseudo-science, or proto-science, or what? Popper thinks that all legitimate inquiry is about solving real problems, and scientific theories are those that are potentially falsifiable: they make definitely predictions about the world that, if these fail to be true, would show that the theory is false.

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