Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti

Feb 9, 2023

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Ignorance Leads to a Self-Concept, Right?

02:50

The Physics of Enemies

02:40

How Do Concepts Get Generated in the First Place?

02:50

Introduction

3min

What Is Paleontology and How Does It Relate to Other Sciences?

3min

Is There a Difference Between Science and Experimental Science?

3min

The Devil Is in the Details

3min

The Scientific Methods of Experimental Versus Historical Sciences

3min

Is It a Difference Between a Cause and an Effect in the Historical Sciences?

3min

Is There an Asymmetry Between Causes and Effects?

2min

Freud's Asymmetry in Psychology

3min

The Physics of Enemies

3min

10.

Psychopathologies and Psychopathology - What's Going On?

3min

11.

Psychopathology

3min

12.

How Do Concepts Get Generated in the First Place?

3min

13.

What Darwin Was Doing in the Origin of Species

3min

14.

Is Socrates Moving on to the Experimental Sciences?

3min

15.

Kuhn's Paradigms

3min

16.

Is There a Framework for Social Behavior?

3min

17.

Is There a Way Around Ideology?

2min

18.

Is There a Singularity in AI?

2min

19.

Ignorance Leads to a Self-Concept, Right?

3min

20.

Is There a Path Dependent Link Between the Historical and Experimental Sciences?

2min

21.

The Relationship Between Intuition and Reason

4min

22.

Is There Something About Poetry?

3min

23.

Is There a Failure Mode in Psychedelics?

2min

24.

Is There a Difference Between Nomo Thetic and Ideographic?

3min

25.

History Is Not a Science

2min

26.

Is It Physics or the Rest Is History?

4min

27.

The Times Arrow and the History of Time

4min

28.

What Is the Point of All This?

4min

29.

Why History Is Not the Only Discipline That Doesn't Have a Good Understanding of Meta

4min

30.

Is Gibbon Trying to Put Forward a Theory of Empires?

2min

31.

The Garden of Forking Paths

5min

I'm joined by developmental psychologist Isabela Granic and historian Sam Biagetti to discuss the differences between how reasoning is used in experimental sciences versus historical sciences. How do we get certainty from physics experiments? How do we get certainty about what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do "nomothetic" and "idiographic" mean?

We continue on from the discussion in Causality and Conditionality. We also make reference to an earlier discussion ("There's only two disciplines: history and physics") I had with Sam on this podcast.

We rely on two papers by Carol Cleland:

The long one: "Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science" (2002): PDF.
The short one: "Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method" (2001): PDF.

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