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What makes technology science? Why is technology so successful? How do we distinguish technology from pseudoscience? This fascinating inquiry in to the vigorous controversy over the nature of science covers important philosophers such as Karl Popper, W. V. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Carl Hempel, Nelson Goodman, and Bas van Fraassen. These thinkers responded in one way or another to rational positivism, the dominant movements influencing the idea of science during the first fifty percent of the 20th hundred years - a movements whose eventual demise is an object lesson in how truly difficult it is to secure the rational foundations of a subject that seems so unassailably rational: science. The idea of technology can be abstract and theoretical, but it is also surprisingly practical. Science performs a pivotal role in our world, and a demanding study of its philosophical foundations sheds light on the ideas, methods, establishments, and behaviors of mind which may have so astonishingly and efficiently transformed our world. In the course of these 36 stimulating lectures, you will investigate an array of philosophical methods to technology, including empiricism, constructivism, medical realism, and Bayesianism. You'll also examine such principles as natural types, bridge laws, Hume's fork, the covering-law model, the hypothetico-deductive model, and inference to the best description (mistakenly called "deduction" in the Sherlock Holmes reports). Teacher Kasser shows how these and other tools allow us to disassemble scientific quarrels and examine their internal workings - even while staying an impartial guide as you understand the quarrels among different philosophers in the past 100 years.
