
Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
00:00
Free Speech
Mark O'Mara: I think a good place to start in section one of the essay that we're concentrating on is justificationism. So i thought maybe getting at those three different, what he calls tob, it really turnd out tobe, three different false assumptions would be a good starting place. Although it sounds like mark, i think you're problygon wanted to find justifications he yes. He goes ahead and gives a lot of different definitions of justificationism, probablism, and then popper's falsificationism,. But it's section two where we real get into the meat of his refutation. And this is very broad applicability to intellectual debates and political
Transcript
Play full episode