In this video upload available on Spotify (we’ll try this once and see how it’s received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode…
Category: Critical Rationalism
Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…
By Bruce Nielson Full Presentation Available at The Theory of Anything Podcast, Episode 41 Thomas Kuhn’s Challenge to Popper In Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of…
Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…
In my last post, I discussed how Popper scholar Danny Frederick and Physicist David Deutsch (also a Popperian) actually use the word ‘refutation’ in distinctly…
We previously discussed Popper’s own views on why there is an asymmetry between refutations and verifications. But this didn’t really answer my question entirely. If,…
In a previous post, I mentioned a partial resolution to Penrose’s challenge to Popper’s falsifiability. But in footnote 3 I mentioned that there was still…
Popper’s demarcation criterion is widely understood as an attempt to find the boundary between science and pseudo-science. But in his paper “Addressing Three Popular Philosophic…
In my posts on the problems of refutation, I’ve claimed that within a theory-to-theory comparison refutations and verifications/support are symmetrical. I showed that Popper actually…
For many years I was bothered by the idea that there was no such thing as verification or support in science. In this post, I…