16 subscribers
Работайте офлайн с приложением Player FM !
Episode 755: Chris Haufe - Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
Manage episode 422443450 series 1273181
Some ideas seem to possess a disproportionate ability to lead to new insights, new discoveries, new ideas, and even entirely new ways of thinking. Such ideas are said to be fruitful. Looking across the history of science and mathematics, we see creative minds preoccupied with the search for ideas of this kind. More precious than truth, but far less plentiful, fruitful ideas provide those in pursuit of knowledge with a seemingly bottomless well of innovation from which to draw as they attempt to solve new problems and to refine solutions to old ones. Seasoned researchers have a nose for these ideas. They often know in an instant that some way of approaching a problem will eventually result in a solution to it and to a whole host of other problems, all of which suddenly seem related.
In Fruitfulness, Chris Haufe explains how these ideas are detected and developed into large-scale frameworks for research. He argues for a philosophical perspective on scientific knowledge that places the search for fruitfulness at the heart of the scientific enterprise. This perspective demands a fundamental shift in our thinking about scientific theories, conceiving of them as metaphors to facilitate research instead of increasingly correct descriptions of nature.
Chris Haufe is the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. He works on problems in the history and philosophy of knowledge.
Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop -
https://www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com/book/9780197666395
794 эпизодов
Manage episode 422443450 series 1273181
Some ideas seem to possess a disproportionate ability to lead to new insights, new discoveries, new ideas, and even entirely new ways of thinking. Such ideas are said to be fruitful. Looking across the history of science and mathematics, we see creative minds preoccupied with the search for ideas of this kind. More precious than truth, but far less plentiful, fruitful ideas provide those in pursuit of knowledge with a seemingly bottomless well of innovation from which to draw as they attempt to solve new problems and to refine solutions to old ones. Seasoned researchers have a nose for these ideas. They often know in an instant that some way of approaching a problem will eventually result in a solution to it and to a whole host of other problems, all of which suddenly seem related.
In Fruitfulness, Chris Haufe explains how these ideas are detected and developed into large-scale frameworks for research. He argues for a philosophical perspective on scientific knowledge that places the search for fruitfulness at the heart of the scientific enterprise. This perspective demands a fundamental shift in our thinking about scientific theories, conceiving of them as metaphors to facilitate research instead of increasingly correct descriptions of nature.
Chris Haufe is the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. He works on problems in the history and philosophy of knowledge.
Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop -
https://www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com/book/9780197666395
794 эпизодов
Все серии
×
1 Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen 1:02:22

1 Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember 1:00:09

1 Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence 1:00:16

1 Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life 55:14

1 Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones 1:00:35

1 Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement 1:06:23

1 Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying 1:04:23


1 Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World 1:01:27


1 Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory 49:45

1 Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage 42:31
Добро пожаловать в Player FM!
Player FM сканирует Интернет в поисках высококачественных подкастов, чтобы вы могли наслаждаться ими прямо сейчас. Это лучшее приложение для подкастов, которое работает на Android, iPhone и веб-странице. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы синхронизировать подписки на разных устройствах.