Popper, who is often considered as one of the most important philosophers of science, had associations with the discipline of psychology in his early years. Popper was associated with Würzburg school of psychology, especially the psychologies of Külpe, Selz and Bühler. However, there was a ...
scientists. Like Popper, we might expect a testable alternative hypothesis that attempts to account for the discrepancy across studies; and one that itself may be subject to testing rather than merely beingad hoc. In other words, a ‘failed’ replication is not, in itself, the answer to a q...
Karl Popper speculated that justificationism is what got the project of science off the ground. Early scientists would not have been inspired by the realization that all we can have is unsettled science. But now, the very same desire for settled science that got us off the gr...
The transhumanist wager observes, analogously, that there is a possibility that in the not-too-distant future, science and technology will have the ability to bestow on people, if not an “infinitely happy” life, a lifestyle that is hugely expanded and enhanced compared to today’s. Jethro...
This article is concerned with one of the notable but forgotten research strands that developed out of French nineteenth-century positivism, a strand that ... K Vaesen - 《Hopos the Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science》 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 Multidisci...
So although the question of whether a stereotype is accurate or inaccurate is an empirically testable one that science can answer, the question of whether it is wrong for people to hold inaccurate stereotypes is not. Similarly, the question of whether criminal behavior has a genetic component is...
Pseudo-psychology does not rely on the scientific method to test hypotheses and there is no peer review process for the publication of scientific studies. Another important element of a science-based discipline has to do with the concept offalsifiability. This criterion was advocated by the philosop...
Falsifiability is the ability for something to be proven wrong or be proven false. This concept was first introduced by scientist Karl Popper (1902-1994) whose interest focused on how to properly separate real, legitimate science from pseudo-science. Now falsifiability is typically used in regards...
science is based on the principle of falsification, but many of Freud’s theories cannot be falsified precisely because they account for almost all possible outcomes. The idea of falsification, introduced by the Austrian-British philosopher of science Karl Popper, was largely motivated by a desire ...
Almost a decade ago, Curran reemphasized that the aim of any empirical science is to pursue the construction of a cumulative base of knowledge [5]. However, it has also been emphasized that such a cumulative knowledge—for a true psychological science—is not possible through the current and ...