Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace.Squarespace: share your passion with the world.Imagine being alive when Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity.Or witnessing the birth of psychology, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream.The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science.There was another figure on the intellectual scene when these great minds were at work.Young philosopher Karl Popper was born in Austria -- Freud’s home turf -- but builthis career in Britain, giving serious consideration to the new ways that these and other scientistsof the time were thinking about the world.And after looking at different methods that people like Einstein and Freud were using,Popper came to understand th...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace.Squarespace: share your passion with the world.Imagine being alive when Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity.Or witnessing the birth of psychology, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream.The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science.There was another figure on the intellectual scene when these great minds were at work.Young philosopher Karl Popper was born in Austria -- Freud’s home turf -- but builthis career in Britain, giving serious consideration to the new ways that these and other scientistsof the time were thinking about the world.And after looking at different methods that people like Einstein and Freud were using,Popper came to understand th...
