Science is Addicted to Explanations

About this episode

The episode explores the limitations of scientific models and explanations, highlighting biases and blind spots they create.

What if models were not the only way to understand reality? What if they created deep blind spots, biases and paradigm lock? We continue our April series on the philosophy of science with a look at how science is built on models and explanations, and the problems this creates. These problems extend through much of science, because it is founded on model making. After this, listen to my episodes from April 1st and April 8th to hear all my in-depth critiques of science. Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9 Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-cats Newsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links

People in this episode

Host: Ross Edwards

Topics covered

• philosophy of science
• models and explanations
• biases in science
• paradigm lock
• critique of science

Keywords

• science
• models
• explanations
• biases
• philosophy
• paradigm lock
• critique

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: science, philosophy of science

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