The Fallacy of Perfectionism

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In explaining what exactly our solar system was, and what was happening in it, civilizations best explanation evolved towards better and better explanations. One paradigmatic leap was that from a geocentric model in which the Earth was at the center of the solar system to the Copernican heliocentric model. In 1687, Newton solved this problem with his great edifice called classical mechanics - Prancipia Mathematica.

In this episode of Fallible Animals, we discuss how it is that sciences progresses, despite the fact that all science is conjectural. It turns out that progress entails reducing errors in our worldview. We define knowledge and review its growth over the course of history. Finally, we take as a case study our ever-improving understanding of our own Solar System, from Copernicus to Kepler to Newton.

Transcript of Karl Popper's lecture/essay entitled 'Objective Knowledge' - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/845d...

Foundational Paper on Constructor Theory (preprint) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439.pdf

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