Fallible Animals Episode 3: Progress as Error-Correction

In this episode of Fallible Animals, we discuss how it is that sciences progresses, despite the fact that all science is conjectural. It turns out that progress entails reducing errors in our worldview. We define knowledge and review its growth over the course of history. Finally, we take as a case study our ever-improving understanding of our own Solar System, from Copernicus to Kepler to Newton.   

Transcript of Karl Popper's lecture/essay entitled 'Objective Knowledge' - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/845d... 

Foundational Paper on Constructor Theory (preprint) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439.pdf 

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