Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience (Robert Wright & Lee McIntyre)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Lee’s new book The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience ... Why scientific theories are never “proved” ... Karl Popper’s principle of falsification explained ... Why the philosophy of science hasn’t been useful to scientists ... Why philosophers of science need a new way to talk about evidence ... Can philosophy of science help refute science deniers? ... Flat Earthers, science denial, and the scientific attitude ... Cognitive bias, ideology, and the social sciences ... Lee: There is no consensus about the epistemological status of science ... The hubris of “naive realism” ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:09.0	Hi, Lee.
0:10.1	Hi, Bob.
0:11.3	How are you doing?
0:12.4	I'm doing okay.
0:13.6	Good.
0:14.4	Let me introduce us.
0:15.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:15.9	This is the right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:19.1	You are Lee McIntyre.
0:20.3	You're a philosopher.
0:21.6	In fact, you're a fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.
0:26.3	You've written a book we're going to talk about.
0:28.5	It is called The Scientific Attitude, Defending Science from Denial Fraud and Pseudoscience.
0:34.7	It looks like that.
0:36.0	Podcast listeners can't see this, but others can. It's a very
0:41.3	handsome jacket. It's published by MIT Press. Very prestigious academic press.
0:49.2	Now, there's a lot to talk about here. I mean, the subtitle gives you some sense of what this is about.
0:58.6	But I think in setting up the conversation,
1:01.1	is it fair to say that this is, in some ways,
1:03.6	a logical successor to your previous book,
1:05.7	which is called Post-Truth,
	...

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