{"id":200,"date":"2019-09-16T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/?p=200"},"modified":"2021-05-07T21:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:15:38","slug":"science-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/2019\/09\/16\/science-and-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haha! You will hear my humble opinions on a variety of topics on philosophy and science. I will put my assignments here to track myself!<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– What does it mean, according to Carnap, that philosophy should just be logic of science?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • Carnap builds his point of view onto the intersection of logic and empiricism, primarily affected by Ernst Mach. He tries to define a system of logical language constructed with internal and external questions. With the rules of this language, metaphysics can be expelled from the realms of science. The metaphysical statements do not contain empirical criterion, deducibility, truth-conditions, and method of verification. Once we identify those statements and words, we can remove meaningless words and pseudo-statements and clarify the scientific concepts. What remains for philosophy is science through the method of logical analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    – Describe one example in Laplane et al\u2019s article that shows how philosophy can have a productive impact on science<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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    • As a half-way scientist, I disagree with most of the conceptual examples introduced in the paper (ie<\/em>. formulation of a novel theoretical framework, which should be a core part of science, in a sense that asking hypothetical questions, forming research statement\/hypothesis etc.). However, I also found that the most intriguing and driving discussions on human cognition can be oriented by philosophy! Artificial intelligence (AI) is simply our future, believe it or not. Yet, the concepts of mind, intelligence, consciousness, and emotion are equally vague in terms of a computer-generated body of code with thousands of lines. I have an insight that if we can define \u2018what human is\u2019, we will make a huge step in AI. That\u2019s why, we need philosophy right now! Immediately!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      – Describe one instance of negative contribution of positivism to science according to Weinberg<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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      • Unfortunately, Kaufmann did not believe what he deduced from measurements (electric charge\/mass) without \u2018observing\u2019 physically. However, it was an electron, which is still not observed alone since it is a quantum particle following Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle. But, if we observe particles, expelled from a cathode ray with a certain velocity, are deflecting in magnetic field with the same radius, we can obtain a ratio (charge\/mass) which points out a new particle: electron. Kaufmann hesitated to report this new particle due to his positivist views and maybe the common positivist atmosphere in scientific world of his time, and he missed the Nobel prize\u2026 This might seem as an individual failure, but also shows the adverse effect of being a conservative \u2018believer\u2019 of any idea\/approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Haha! You will hear my humble opinions on a variety of topics on philosophy and science. I will put my assignments here to track myself! – What does it mean, according to Carnap, that philosophy should just be logic of science? Carnap builds his point of view onto the intersection of logic and empiricism, primarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3115,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32685],"tags":[74900,32688],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-philosophy","tag-science-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nazli-turan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}