Philosophers of science/scientists
What major revelation concerning our world did Aristotle make?
Earth is round
What is pseudoscience?
What does postmodernism believe concerning objectivity?
There is no objective reality, merely multiple subjective truths.
Who thought that the goal is to disprove rather than prove theories?
Popper
Which philosopher created his own scientific method predating the hypothetico-deductive method?
Bacon
theory that all knowledge is derived from experience/observation
Was Jean-Paul Lyotard a feminist?
No
Does positivism reject or accept theism?
Reject (b/c an assertion must be scientifically verifiable for it to be rational)
How many moons of Jupiter did Galileo discover?
4
What is scientific realism?
Reality described by science is real no matter how it may be interpreted
Did Lyotard describe how science is merely a form of storytelling just like other subjects?
No (Wittgenstein)
Do fallibilists believe all knowledge is certain?
No, they believe knowledge is provisional and can be revised when new revelations arise
Which trio of laws did Newton discover?
Three laws of motion
What does instrumentalism argue?
scientific theories are not meant to describe the nature of reality, but to explain and predict phenomena
Does feminism accept or deny the tradition of science in critiquing it?
They accept it and critique science without refuting its tradition
What is the cycle made by a philosopher concerning paradigm shifts?
Kuhn's science of science
Which astronomer's theories were advanced by Newton?
Kepler
What is anti-realist constructivism?
The theory that the material world exists, but doubts there is an objective reality independent of our perceptions and ideas
Name the three critics of science covered today
Keller, Lyotard and Wittgenstein
In the Infinite monkey theorem, which play is the monkey arguably able to write with infinite time.
Hamlet