Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)

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EpisodeMay 25, 202419m

Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)

Rapid Idea Improvement

EpisodeMay 25, 202419m

In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

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A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").

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