Review -- 1
What is Scientific Knowledge?
- What questions are “scientific”
- What statements are scientific? --- Examples
- Feynman’s answer: “The test of all [scientific] knowledge is experiment.”
- What are other types of knowledge? --- Examples
How did our present definition come about?
- What steps in history were particularly important?
- Powers answer: “… no single idea has had a more profound or ubiquitous impact on what the human race has become, or what it has worked upon the face of the planet, than the vesting of authority in experiment.”
- When did this happen? What were other movements in human history that occurred in the same period(s)?
- How did this happen? How did (does) science advance?