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Date Created: 2015-07-04
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Date Updated: 2024-06-18
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My name is Hakob Barseghyan. I teach history and philosophy of science at Victoria College, University of Toronto. It is my goal to help my students appreciate how fascinating both the history and philosophy of science are.
In my videos, I discuss a number of important philosophical questions: Can we know anything with absolute certainty? Is there a universal and unchangeable method of science? What is the mechanism of scientific change? What demarcates science from non-science? Can scientific theories provide true descriptions of the world? Is there scientific progress?
I also outline the scientific worldviews accepted in different periods of the history of science. In particular, I focus on the key components of the four major scientific worldviews – Aristotelian-medieval, Cartesian, Newtonian, and Contemporary (Quantum-Relativistic).