Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler hit the books and cram for their beloved Patreon listener-selected episode – this time on Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” David thinks Kuhn is a great sociologist of science but recoils at the relativistic tenor of the final chapters. Tamler loves anything that makes David recoil.
Plus, should we give more weight to the advice of people on their deathbed? Or should we nod politely and get back to working for that promotion…
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Links:
- Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? | Aeon Essays — reasons
- The Splintered Mind: On the Epistemic Status of Deathbed Regrets
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [amazon.com affiliate link]
- What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" - Scientific American Blog Network
- The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:16.8 | I don't know Arthur. |
| 0:18.4 | I know who I am, but I'm seeing things a lot more clearly now. |
| 0:22.1 | I wish things were different, but it weren't us who changed. |
| 0:28.5 | Theranean, most has spoken. |
| 0:46.7 | Who are you? |
| 0:49.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:50.0 | Very bad man. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:53.0 | Good man. Good man. |
| 0:58.3 | They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:02.3 | They know our attention. |
| 1:04.2 | Come on man. |
| 1:08.4 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:12.4 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:16.6 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:19.3 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm Tamar Summers from the University of Houston. |
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