29 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
3853 | For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith] |
3859 | We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith] |
3870 | The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith] |
3854 | Positivists hold that theoretical terms change, but observation terms don't [Newton-Smith] |
3855 | Critics attack positivist division between theory and observation [Newton-Smith] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
3861 | Theories generate infinite truths and falsehoods, so they cannot be used to assess probability [Newton-Smith] |
3869 | More truthful theories have greater predictive power [Newton-Smith] |
3867 | De re necessity arises from the way the world is [Newton-Smith] |
3872 | We must assess the truth of beliefs in identifying them [Newton-Smith] |
19520 | Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee] |
19523 | Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee] |
19521 | If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee] |
19522 | More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
3857 | Defeat relativism by emphasising truth and reference, not meaning [Newton-Smith] |
3858 | A full understanding of 'yellow' involves some theory [Newton-Smith] |
3862 | All theories contain anomalies, and so are falsified! [Newton-Smith] |
3863 | The anomaly of Uranus didn't destroy Newton's mechanics - it led to Neptune's discovery [Newton-Smith] |
3864 | Anomalies are judged against rival theories, and support for the current theory [Newton-Smith] |
3865 | Why should it matter whether or not a theory is scientific? [Newton-Smith] |
3866 | If theories are really incommensurable, we could believe them all [Newton-Smith] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
3871 | Explaining an action is showing that it is rational [Newton-Smith] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |