19min chapter

Context with Brad Harris cover image

What's True?

Context with Brad Harris

CHAPTER

Exploring Pragmatism, Truth, and Scientific Progress

The chapter delves into the history and key concepts of pragmatism, emphasizing the idea of continual change and flux. It discusses how pragmatists view truth as something that proves itself in the world, contrasting social truth with scientific truth. The conversation explores Thomas Kuhn's views on scientific revolutions and the implications of paradigm shifts, leading to a discussion on collapsing scientific truth into socially constructed truth.

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