Michael Strevens is a professor of Philosophy at New York University. He  is specialized on the philosophy of science. His major interests  include explanation, complex systems, probability, confirmation, the  social structure of science, and causation; the psychology of concepts;  and the philosophical applications of cognitive science. He is the  author of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern  Science, Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates  Armchair Philosophy and Depth. 

In this conversation, we talk about: philosophy of science, work of the  great philosophers of science Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, what is  science, how science works, the knowledge machine, iron rule,  irrationality of science, arrival of modern science, iron rule of  science for artificial intelligence.  

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Website : http://www.strevens.org/ 

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Here's the outline of the session: 

0:00 Introduction  

0:38 A philosopher of science   

1:47 Work of Karl popper and Thomas Kuhn  

4:43 What did Popper and Kuhn miss?  

8:39 What is science?   

17:40 The knowledge machine  

21:37 Irrational science   

31:28 Nature of empirical evidence   

37:50 Power struggles in science   

42:16 Iron rule of science   

49:10 Einstein was right!   

51:35 Proof reading in science   

54:49 Why it took so much time for science to arrive?   

1:01:08 Power of science   

1:04:44 Science and pseudoscience   

1:07:31 Education and science   

1:11:09 Who is a scientist?  

1:16:20 Read the knowledge machine   

1:19:02 Science with robots  

1:22:16 More about Michael's work  

Listen to Michael's talk at the royal institute: https://youtu.be/aaf6qDk3-ic  

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