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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What is Philosophy?
- Season 1 How to Argue - Philosophical Reasoning
- Season 1 How to Argue - Induction & Abduction
- Season 1 Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality
- Season 1 Cartesian Skepticism - Neo, Meet Rene
- Season 1 Locke, Berkeley, & Empiricism
- Season 1 The Meaning of Knowledge
- Season 1 Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience
- Season 1 Anselm & the Argument for God
- Season 1 Aquinas & the Cosmological Arguments
- Season 1 Intelligent Design
- Season 1 What Is God Like?
- Season 1 The Problem of Evil
- Season 1 Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theories, & Epistemic Responsibility
- Season 1 Indiana Jones & Pascal's Wager
- Season 1 Existentialism
- Season 1 Perspectives on Death
- Season 1 Batman & Identity
- Season 1 Personal Identity
- Season 1 Arguments Against Personal Identity
- Season 1 Personhood
- Season 1 Where Does Your Mind Reside?
- Season 1 Artificial Intelligence & Personhood
- Season 1 Determinism vs Free Will
- Season 1 Compatibilism
- Season 1 Language & Meaning
- Season 1 Netflix & Chill
- Season 1 How Words Can Harm
- Season 1 Nonexistent Objects & Imaginary Worlds
- Season 1 Aesthetic Appreciation
- Season 1 Aesthetics
- Season 1 Metaethics
- Season 1 Divine Command Theory
- Season 1 Natural Law Theory
- Season 1 Kant & Categorical Imperatives
- Season 1 Utilitarianism
- Season 1 Contractarianism
- Season 1 Aristotle & Virtue Theory
- Season 1 Moral Luck
- Season 1 What Is Justice?
- Season 1 Discrimination
- Season 1 Non-Human Animals
- Season 1 Family Obligations
- Season 1 Poverty & Our Response to It
- Season 1 Assisted Death & the Value of Life
- Season 1 What Is a Good Life?
Crash Course Philosophy - Season 1 Episode 8 Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience
7.00 10 minutes The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream. Karl Popper observed these developments firsthand and came to draw a distinction between what he referred to as science and pseudoscience, which might best be summarized as science disconfirms, while pseudoscience confirms. While the way we describe these disciplines has changed in the intervening years, Popper’s ideas speak to the heart of how we arrive at knowledge.
