Bros, I'm having a Methodology/Philosophy of Science exam in a few days and I don't have a proper book to learn from. What book would you recommend?
It should be a general guide through methodology including topics like:
- the naturalist thinking
- scientific revolution
- classification of sciences
- what is truth
- logical empirists
- scientific theories, hypothesis, thesis, ad hoc hipothesis, etc.
- falsification
- science paradigms
All around philosophers like Karl Popper, Kuhn, Wittgenstein, Kant, Fleck, etc.
Start with Feyerabend.
Stupid fricker, you should read what your professor think. You have to be fricking kidding, get someone's notes.
I have notes, but the professor is a bit...old. He has tendency to repeat the same examples two times a lecture. he repeated his story about meeting the pastor from the Church of Christ around ~9 times within 14 lectures. Aside of that, I can read through some of my notes and reading the texts directly, but it's fricking inefficient. Learning from notes is moronic. Why would a person keep making personal notes from lectures if the lecturer can just give us already organized text that contains all the important info? It's straight up dumb not to do that, thus most of my teachers provide them.
I want an organized summary of methodology for an exam, not a meme book to read.
You should start with notes, and you were supposed to have read the books before classes. Now, you are fricked. You won't pull up any miracle shit, get your class notes, and ask ChatGPT to provide you a study plan considering the time you have.
Guys, I'm not fricked. I will pass this way or another, but I want to pass without reading random shit for 30h straight and mining for the scraps of knowledge, just the important parts.
>wants to do the minimum
https://poe.com/
It looked worthwhile, but after downloading it I see it's only a collection of essays. That is not the organized information on philosophy of methodology I was looking for, but I already found some clues where to look. Thanks, I guess.
A Nice Derangement of Epistemes is probably too sophisticated for you to process it in a few days, or maybe at all if you're too dumb to have studied for your own exam
I would just google philosophy of science syllabus and look at like 20 syllabi and try to find one that recommends a single overview book, I'm sure there's some half decent one that covers all the basic names. Also go look at the Oxford Bibliographies for Philosophy of Science. Use your uni library site to get a link to it.
Using ChatGPT is fricking cheating. It straight up explained the main problems in succinct, summarized manner that allows me to check each issue on its own starting from a solid foundation. Language Models really are a game changer. Just look at the picrel
You will only get correct info for extremely basic shit from the top of wikipedia, everything else it starts lying/hallucinating quickly. Like even at the level of attributing to things to Popper that Popper is famous for attacking.
Remember it's not thinking. It's going by proximity in a body of texts. That's it. It will happily smash two diametrically opposed idea sets together in a way that's only possible to see through if you already know the info you're asking. I tried some stuff like this with it for very basic 101 level questions about various topics and it hallucinated frequently enough that it's useless.
>A Nice Derangement of Epistemes
A bit of rundown on this book, please?
Find a Blackwell or Oxford guide and use the index at the back.
Ask chatgpt
What is this thing we call science? by Alan Chalmers.
So they made you feel guilty just reading it?
You should know this already from reading Feyerabend and Deleuze.
>Feyerabend and Deleuze.
Don't think we've ever heard those words during lectures. Eastern European here, btw.
Ian Hacking (1983). Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Okay, this one looks much better than what the other anons recommended. I probably won't use it because I already got one wokr-flow at the moment, but it's a good recommendation anon, thanks.
No problem, good luck
What Is This Thing Called Science? - Alan Chalmers
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science - Peter Godfrey-Smith
These two are good introductions to philosophy of science.