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Compare and contrast the views of Popper, Kuhn, and Lakatos on the issue of demarcation. What is the demarcation problem, as Popper describes it, and what is Popper’s criterion for science?

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Essay-Help

Compare and contrast the views of Popper, Kuhn, and Lakatos on the issue of demarcation. What is the demarcation problem, as Popper describes it, and what is Popper’s criterion for science? Why does he reject inductive confirmation as a mark of science? Why does he think his new criterion is better? What is Kuhn’s criterion […]

What does science say about the safety of vaccines? Do you decide to vaccinate your child?What does science say about the safety of vaccines? Do you decide to vaccinate your child?

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Essay-Help

Questions 1. You just found out that you are pregnant and after talking to a friend about vaccines, you heard that there is proof that they cause autism and other disorders. What does science say about the safety of vaccines? Do you decide to vaccinate your child? 2. You just found out that your 5-year-old […]

Could we be uploaded onto a Computer?” “Has science shown us that we have no free will?

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Essay-Help

“Could we be uploaded onto a computer?” “Has science shown us that we have no free will?”

Do you find this to hold some truth or is science, as others try to maintain, an exercise in objectivity that transcends subjective or “local” social norms?

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Joseph

Godfrey-Smith discusses the “hard program” of the sociology of science, which, briefly, understands the popularity of certain kinds of scientific work to be directly linked to the particular social views of the society and community from which they originate. Godfrey-Smith sums this up by stating that “no one can hope to take a point of […]

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Compare and contrast the views of Popper, Kuhn, and Lakatos on the issue of demarcation. What is the demarcation problem, as Popper describes it, and what is Popper’s criterion for science?

What does science say about the safety of vaccines? Do you decide to vaccinate your child?What does science say about the safety of vaccines? Do you decide to vaccinate your child?

Could we be uploaded onto a Computer?” “Has science shown us that we have no free will?

Do you find this to hold some truth or is science, as others try to maintain, an exercise in objectivity that transcends subjective or “local” social norms?