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Karl Popper (28 July 1904 - 17 September 1994)
Sir Karl Popper was a scientist who was highly regarded within the science community. He is one of the most highly regarded scientists of the 19th century with many siding with him on ideas. One of the main events he sparked and propelled was the idea of changing the scientific method for one more forward thinking, which is falsification. Falsification is the idea that a theory can is not scientific in nature if it can test and proven true. -
Karl Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994)
The mindset should be testing the theory against itself is the proper manner, and one at which is scientific. Also, one large key concept is the idea that anything that adds to the weight of the theory proving true should not be taken as such. There should be no more weight placed into the feasibility of something being true and always hold skepticism in the highest regard. -
Karl Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994)
Another big factor of this idea is that a theory can only be “true science” if it pushed the envelope and cannot just be proven irrefutable. With these factors and the conceptions presented, this mindset really scaled the scientific community. -
Karl Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994)
This idea of falsification is to be, I believe, an attempt to push the field of science forward. I can see the science field just circumventing the same ideas as popular theories and not actually trying to provide anything new. References:
Popper, Karl R. Conjectures and Refutations; Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. -
Helen Longino (Born July 14 1944)
Helen Logino goes on to explain this as places of science, or where science is conducted isn’t truly lonesome and many times teams are very diverse to help unhook cognitive hang ups. She examples the fact that some scientist tend to either have a theory-centric and a practice-centric approach. With these two approaches vastly different in nature, the scientist will try to solve different parts of what is hoped to be the same problem. -
Helen Longino (Born July 14 1944)
Helen Longino is a current generation American philosopher who’s work is focused around behavior and idea studies. Helen Longino has added fuel to the fire in the philosophy of science world as she argues that social constructs are a way to help build and develop the scientific community. She argues that sociology is needed as this brings multiple views to the table, but also is there to serve as the scaffolding for science itself. -
Helen Longino (Born July 14 1944)
Overall, Helen Longino has tried to take as much as the social realm of science to help identify that it is not a hinderance, but a way to make science more honest and truer. While working from different viewpoints, the ideas generated are vastly different and solutions and facts are more substantiated in reality while being more widely excepted. -
Helen Longino (Born July 14 1944)
References:
Longino, Helen. “Foregrounding the Background.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 83, no. 5, 2016, pp. 647–61. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551768. Accessed 7 May 2023.