#63: Science and its Future as Religion

Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science  for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is the status of science as a modern demigod and secular religion and its future as such.  Contemplation of what secular religion may replace science once its present adherents realize the implications of its falsification attribute. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.

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#62: Order from Disorder / Probability and Statistics

Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science  for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on probability and statistics used as a means to hide the falsification attribute of science and to hide the inability of science to give certain truth.

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#61: Order from Disorder / Evolution and Intelligent Design

Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science  for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences. Example comparisons consist of evolution and intelligent design.

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#60: Social Sciences

Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science  for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences.

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