[vivekd]

Fyerabend is the top dog right now I wouldn't recommend investing too much in him, he basically thinks there is no demarcation and Voodoo and Einstein are equally valid.

I accept Quine who I admit isn't much better, he thinks it's all about creating a coherent world view. I think he's onto something but he's missing truth which I think is a problem - we want to think science gives us truths about the world, or at least we want a way to get to truth.

There's another view that says science starts with a set of untested assumptions which I haven't gotten around to reading much about

[jimwhite42]

I like some of what I think I understand about Feyerabend's ideas, but I didn't get on with his actual books. I expected something ethnographic-y or observation based, but only found incredibly abstract stuff.

I listened to a few interviews with Liam Kofi Bright, and his ideas about what truth is are pretty interesting. The perspective of 'giving us truths' or 'getting to the truth', is unsatisfying to me.

I think there has to be a core of some kind of 'predict what will happen when we do something, then see how close we got, tweak it in response to these observations, then repeat'.