Very Bad Wizards Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
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Science Advances By Paradigm Shifts
- Thomas Kuhn describes science as shifting through paradigms, not steady cumulative falsification.
- Normal science solves puzzle-like problems until anomalies trigger crises and revolutionary paradigm shifts.
Prisoner Obituaries Reveal Priorities
- Tamler described volunteering in a prisoner reentry program where inmates wrote obituaries to clarify life goals.
- That exercise used a 'deathbed perspective' to surface priorities and regrets for planning reentry.
Typical Deathbed Regrets Reflect Culture
- Common reported deathbed regrets focus on authenticity, relationships, and letting oneself be happy.
- These themes are culturally shaped and may reflect Western individualist values.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
'Red Dead Remedy'
01:38 • 2min
Do Death Bed Regrets Give Us a Special Insight
03:15 • 2min
How Should I Live My Life?
05:03 • 3min
I Wish I'd Had the Courage to Express My Feelings
07:34 • 2min
I Wish I Had Done What I Wanted to Do
09:09 • 2min
Is There Something That We Should Privilege About Death?
11:01 • 3min
Death and Hindsight Bias
14:30 • 2min
I Prefer the Wisdom of 40 Year Olds, the Ones in the Middle of Life Who Gaze Equally in Both Directions
16:45 • 3min
The Death Bed Perspective
19:30 • 3min
I Don't Know if I'll Read War and Peace
22:10 • 1min
Long Term Projects
23:39 • 2min
Is Death Bed Proclamation a Good Thing?
25:17 • 2min
Is That What Life Is About?
27:29 • 3min
You're the One Tat S the Credit?
30:04 • 2min
Very Bad Wizards Podcast - On a Slight Change of Plans
32:07 • 3min
You Can Support Us in a Number of Ways
35:36 • 2min
Very Bad Wizards - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Coone
37:49 • 3min
The Structure of Scientific Progress by Thomas Coon
40:21 • 2min
The Paradime Shift
42:15 • 6min
Science Is Nothing, or Something Like That
48:10 • 4min
We Can't Transcend the Paradim That We Are
52:34 • 2min
Isant Antivaxor Major, I'm Not an Anan Ant.
54:24 • 1min
Give Well, Don't Donate Money to Save or Improve Lives
55:51 • 2min
Givewell - Don't Lose Your Givewell Virginity
57:25 • 2min
Social Psychology in a Paradime or Normal Science?
59:23 • 6min
Is There Paradimes in Social Psychology?
01:05:09 • 2min
The Paradime Shift in Ptolemaic Astronomy
01:07:23 • 5min
Copernicus vs Copernican
01:12:20 • 2min
The Incommensurability of Visual Perception
01:14:35 • 2min
Aristoteliun's Gastaltshift
01:16:23 • 2min
Isn't That a Picture of How Science Could Work?
01:18:07 • 4min
Is There a Falsification of the Paradime?
01:21:47 • 3min
Is It Possible to Make a Falsifiable Prediction?
01:25:01 • 2min
Is Your Life Stressing You?
01:26:38 • 2min
Better Help and Very Bad Wizards Podcast - Slash v B W
01:28:35 • 3min
Coon's Incyphel - Is That Really What the People Claim to Be?
01:31:45 • 2min
Is There a Way to Judgment Between Paradimes?
01:34:00 • 2min
Is It Evolution or Paradimes That Replace Other Paradidimes?
01:35:53 • 2min
The Evolution of Science
01:38:08 • 2min
The Evolution Analyse
01:40:30 • 2min
Is There a More Refined Understanding of Nature?
01:42:45 • 2min
The Rotation of the Motion of Planets
01:44:49 • 2min
Is There a Single Way That the Planets Move?
01:46:25 • 2min
Paradimes Are Ways of Understanding Objective Reality, but They're Not Theret
01:47:59 • 2min
Is There Any Need to Think for This to Work?
01:50:17 • 2min
I Don't See the Power of the Analogue to Evolution
01:51:53 • 2min
Is There an Objective Reality for Science to Be Science?
01:53:39 • 3min
Is Einstein's Theory Doing a Better Job?
01:56:14 • 2min
Unless, Nono, I Don't Think Te Target Has Shifted
01:57:54 • 2min
The Sun Doesn't Move at All, It's in the Centre of the Universe
01:59:57 • 2min
Is There a Paradime Dependent?
02:01:58 • 2min
Is It a Game, Not a Game?
02:03:52 • 2min
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Links:
- Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? | Aeon Essays — reasons
- The Splintered Mind: On the Epistemic Status of Deathbed Regrets
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn [amazon.com affiliate link]
- What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" - Scientific American Blog Network
- The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn