Godfrey-Smith argues that doesn't work and posits that science-as-it's-practiced works as a system that uses individuals in different roles (in different times and about different topics). 2/3
Yeah… this seems to me to account for very little of what makes science work. Hypothesis testing is not mostly what scientists do. It’s not even what’s attempted in many classes of experiments. The story doesn’t explain where hypotheses come from, or what counts as falsification
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People expect Popper to provide advice on how science should be done. That was never his project, so dragging him into discussions on sociology of science or the like is usually a waste of time and an excuse to characterize his work as lacking.
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So… what’s his key contribution, then? “Science replaces wrong theories with better ones” is true and important, but not original or unique to him.
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It appears to me that you, also, are not attempting to account for what makes science work. Your attention is to something broader.
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