Season 1 · Episode 69
Episode 69: Social Science and Critical Rationalism
The Theory of Anything · Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen
November 6, 20231h 33m
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Show Notes
This week we have criminologist Brian Boutwell on again for part 2 of our discussion on critical rationalism and social science. Does all science share the same structure? How do you apply Popper's epistemology to social sciences? Are there laws of human nature? If humans are universal explainers, what does it mean to study our behavior?
See episode 68 for a summary of Caldwell's "Clarifying Popper" that we discuss.