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The Philosophy of Science

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A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners
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In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such that we can build a scientific theory on it?

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In the third lecture we examine first the so-called “Gettier Problems” for the traditional account of knowledge, the arguments for saying that possible worlds exist and finally we ask whether there really are unactualised possibles.
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Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series.
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Series
A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners
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Marianne Talbot
Keywords
philosophy
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 11/11/2014
Duration: 01:15:26

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