The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’
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The History of Mathematics
I've had a scatter gun bunch of questions flowing your way but they come from these big thick articles and chapters which you go into immense detail about the individual involvement individual problems and the history they had. Last thoughts then looking back at your approach over the years and back to Lakotaj he was one of the most striking things that hit you when you started studying under him. When he spoke about the history of mathematics it wasn't abstract he was talking about real people and the real problems that they had is this historical based empiricism. That's really the approach I've used throughout so even though Lakotaj and Poplar didn't study medicine particularly I tried to apply that kind of historical approach
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