Philosophy of Science
The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge, Including the Demarcation Problem, Falsification, Paradigm Shifts, and the Debate over Whether Science Discovers TruthBy Alex Omberg
Length4h 31m
About this audiobook
Does science discover absolute truth, or just invent useful fictions?
Every day, we trust science to cure our diseases, power our cities, and explain the cosmos. But beneath the pristine image of the "scientific method" lies a battlefield of unproven assumptions, fierce intellectual rivalries, and profound philosophical mysteries.
In Philosophy of Science: The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge, Alex Omberg strips away the myths of objective inquiry to reveal the messy, thrilling, and deeply human reality of how we understand the universe.
From David Hume’s devastating realization that we cannot logically prove the sun will rise tomorrow, to Thomas Kuhn's controversial claim that scientific progress is just a series of "paradigm shifts," the bedrock of modern knowledge is far more fragile—and fascinating—than we are taught.
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GenrePhilosophy, Science and Nature
Length4 hrs 31 mins
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Publish dateApr 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction: What Makes Science Science?
3Chapter 1: The Birth of Method
4The Aristotelian Foundation
5The Medieval Contribution
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6Bacon's Inductive Revolution
7The Rise of the Controlled Experiment
8The Question of Good Evidence
9Method as Achievement and Problem
10Chapter 2: The Problem of Induction
11The Anatomy of Induction
12The Living with Induction
13Goodman's New Riddle
14Pragmatic and Probabilistic Responses
15Induction in Practice
16The Problem's Significance
17The Unresolved Challenge
18Chapter 3: The Falsification Gambit
19The Asymmetry Between Verification and Falsification
20The Method of Conjecture and Refutation
21Problems with Falsification in Practice
22The Problem of Auxiliary Hypotheses
23Corroboration and Progress
24The Legacy of Falsificationism
25Chapter 4: The Structure of Revolutions
26The Paradigm Concept
27Normal Science as Puzzle-Solving
28Anomalies and Crisis
29Revolutionary Science
30The Role of Persuasion and Community
31Problems and Objections
32Impact and Legacy
33The Unresolved Tension
34Chapter 5: The Anarchist and the Rationalist
35Lakatos's Research Programs
36The Problem of Comparison
37Feyerabend's Anarchism
38The Defense of Reason
39Proliferation and Incommensurability
40Science and Democracy
41The Methodology Wars' Legacy
42Chapter 6: The Invisible World
43The Realist Position
44The Anti-Realist Response
45The Observation-Theory Distinction
46Underdetermination and Equivalent Descriptions
47Entity Realism and Experimental Practice
48Structural Realism
49The Debate's Significance
50The Unresolved Question
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