February 6, 2018
Featuring Dr. Joel Velasco, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University
"Science and Testability"
Karl Popper famously claimed that what separated science from pseudoscience was that
scientific theories were falsifiable. This claim about the importance of scientific
predictions and the testability of theories is still commonly accepted by scientists
and non-scientists alike and was, for example, very important in American court cases
involving the teaching of Evolution, Scientific Creationism, and Intelligent Design
in schools. But there are well-known are arguably insuperable problems with Popper's
account. This talk given by Dr. Joel Velasco, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at
Texas Tech University, will examine some of these problems and ask how we should think
about the nature of scientific theorizing in light of them.
The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
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