Very Bad Wizards

Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")

Jul 20, 2021

02:06:00

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Social Psychology in a Paradime or Normal Science?

05:46

Isn't That a Picture of How Science Could Work?

03:40

Is There Paradimes in Social Psychology?

02:14

Introduction

2min

'Red Dead Remedy'

2min

Do Death Bed Regrets Give Us a Special Insight

2min

How Should I Live My Life?

3min

I Wish I'd Had the Courage to Express My Feelings

2min

I Wish I Had Done What I Wanted to Do

2min

Is There Something That We Should Privilege About Death?

3min

Death and Hindsight Bias

2min

I Prefer the Wisdom of 40 Year Olds, the Ones in the Middle of Life Who Gaze Equally in Both Directions

3min

10.

The Death Bed Perspective

3min

11.

I Don't Know if I'll Read War and Peace

1min

12.

Long Term Projects

2min

13.

Is Death Bed Proclamation a Good Thing?

2min

14.

Is That What Life Is About?

3min

15.

You're the One Tat S the Credit?

2min

16.

Very Bad Wizards Podcast - On a Slight Change of Plans

3min

17.

You Can Support Us in a Number of Ways

2min

18.

Very Bad Wizards - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Coone

3min

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The Structure of Scientific Progress by Thomas Coon

2min

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The Paradime Shift

6min

21.

Science Is Nothing, or Something Like That

4min

22.

We Can't Transcend the Paradim That We Are

2min

23.

Isant Antivaxor Major, I'm Not an Anan Ant.

1min

24.

Give Well, Don't Donate Money to Save or Improve Lives

2min

25.

Givewell - Don't Lose Your Givewell Virginity

2min

26.

Social Psychology in a Paradime or Normal Science?

6min

27.

Is There Paradimes in Social Psychology?

2min

28.

The Paradime Shift in Ptolemaic Astronomy

5min

29.

Copernicus vs Copernican

2min

30.

The Incommensurability of Visual Perception

2min

31.

Aristoteliun's Gastaltshift

2min

32.

Isn't That a Picture of How Science Could Work?

4min

33.

Is There a Falsification of the Paradime?

3min

34.

Is It Possible to Make a Falsifiable Prediction?

2min

35.

Is Your Life Stressing You?

2min

36.

Better Help and Very Bad Wizards Podcast - Slash v B W

3min

37.

Coon's Incyphel - Is That Really What the People Claim to Be?

2min

38.

Is There a Way to Judgment Between Paradimes?

2min

39.

Is It Evolution or Paradimes That Replace Other Paradidimes?

2min

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The Evolution of Science

2min

41.

The Evolution Analyse

2min

42.

Is There a More Refined Understanding of Nature?

2min

43.

The Rotation of the Motion of Planets

2min

44.

Is There a Single Way That the Planets Move?

2min

45.

Paradimes Are Ways of Understanding Objective Reality, but They're Not Theret

2min

46.

Is There Any Need to Think for This to Work?

2min

47.

I Don't See the Power of the Analogue to Evolution

2min

48.

Is There an Objective Reality for Science to Be Science?

3min

49.

Is Einstein's Theory Doing a Better Job?

2min

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Unless, Nono, I Don't Think Te Target Has Shifted

2min

51.

The Sun Doesn't Move at All, It's in the Centre of the Universe

2min

52.

Is There a Paradime Dependent?

2min

53.

Is It a Game, Not a Game?

2min

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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