Science vs Philosophy of Science (Distinction) — Transcript

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1. 0:00welcome back to cares.org today we're
2. 0:02going to be continuing with our series
3. 0:03dumbfounding definitions dizzying
4. 0:05distinctions and diabolical doctrines a
5. 0:08series sorting through the jargon of
6. 0:10philosophy today we're going to be
7. 0:11doubling up for a thre minute philosophy
8. 0:15video in this video we're going to be
9. 0:17looking at the difference between
10. 0:19philosophy and philosophy of science
11. 0:22what's the difference between these two
12. 0:24disciplines they're often confused
13. 0:25people often think that they're the same
14. 0:27thing when in fact they're very distinct
15. 0:29so science is a methodology that
16. 0:32performs experiments and attempts to
17. 0:34explain phenomena it attempts to provide
18. 0:36us with the theory that best fits the
19. 0:39evidence it then uses inductive methods
20. 0:41to provide further justification or
21. 0:43disproof for that theory through
22. 0:45experiments that can control for certain
23. 0:48variables that we predict are the causes
24. 0:50of phenomena basically science uses
25. 0:52something called the scientific method
26. 0:55it takes that method and based on that
27. 0:57gives us theories of best fit for the
28. 1:00evidence we have and it attempts to then
29. 1:02disprove those theories so that we can
30. 1:04provide more and more justification for
31. 1:06them philosophy of science on the other
32. 1:09hand is a discipline of philosophy that
33. 1:11deals with the justification for the
34. 1:13scientific method itself science assumes
35. 1:16the scientific method and builds up from
36. 1:18that philosophy of science tries to
37. 1:19build up to the scientific method it
38. 1:22tries to give some reasons for us
39. 1:24thinking that the scientific method
40. 1:26Works philosophy of science also deals
41. 1:28with the demarcation between what is and
42. 1:30what is not science so if you're asking
43. 1:32the question is this science it's not up
44. 1:35to science to decide that's a job for
45. 1:37philosophy of science science Works
46. 1:39within the bounds of science to do
47. 1:41science philosophy of science Works
48. 1:43outside those bounds to determine what
49. 1:45fits in those bounds and what does not
50. 1:47an area of study that questions whether
51. 1:50or not science is directed at truth is a
52. 1:53way to describe philosophy of science it
53. 1:56questions some of the assumptions of
54. 1:58science so once again science assumes
55. 2:00the scientific method is effective and
56. 2:02bases its work on that assumption
57. 2:04different fields of science rest on
58. 2:05varying quantities of assumptions but
59. 2:07they all rely on some generally that the
60. 2:10scientific method is effective
61. 2:12philosophy of science on the other hand
62. 2:13is in the business of questioning those
63. 2:15basic assumptions which give rise to
64. 2:17problems like the problem of induction
65. 2:19the problem of underdetermination and
66. 2:20the problem of demarcation unless
67. 2:22solutions to these problems are found
68. 2:24even some of the best confirmed science
69. 2:26is going to be invalid since its very
70. 2:29method are in question even the best
71. 2:33confirmed scientific discoveries all
72. 2:35rely on the scientific method being true
73. 2:38and scientists never question whether or
74. 2:40not the scientific method is effective
75. 2:42at providing truth that's a job for
76. 2:45philosophers of science so when you're
77. 2:48asking whether or not a scientific claim
78. 2:49is true it's not the scientist you
79. 2:52should ask but the philosopher of
80. 2:54science science takes the assumptions of
81. 2:56the scientific method and attempts to
82. 2:57build up from them to new discoveries
83. 2:59whereas philosophy of science takes the
84. 3:00scientific method and attempts to build
85. 3:02down to show that this method is in some
86. 3:05way something that provides us with
87. 3:06truth about the world or has Justified
88. 3:10discoveries if you are curious about
89. 3:12philosophy of science check out the
90. 3:13videos I have here with kind of this
91. 3:15green background where we cover
92. 3:17different issues in philosophy of
93. 3:18science watch this video and more here
94. 3:20at cars.org and stay skeptical everybody