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Cosmology and Epistemology
Part 1
Play video: Cosmology and Epistemology - Part 1Mentioned in this episode:
- ‘Philosophy of Cosmology’ . How physicists and philosophers frame the universe.
- ‘Epistemology’ . A map of what counts as knowledge.
- ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ by Joseph Campbell.
- What is Myth? and Creation from the Void.
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the teacher of my teacher Osman Bakar I mentioned.
- Horcruxes.
Part 2
Play video: Cosmology and Epistemology - Part 2Mentioned in this episode:
- Empiricism. Overview of how sensory experience grounds knowledge.
- Rationalism. Explains how reason and intuition can yield knowledge independent of the senses.
- Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism. How well-confirmed theories describe a mind-independent reality and why predictive success doesn’t need to imply literal truth.
- Phlogiston Theory The 18ᵗʰ-century explanation of combustion later overturned by modern chemistry.
- Self vs Non-self . The immunology model to predict immune responses.