The basic currency of science is research grants.

Skip to 4:46 if you are in a rush but just understand the presenter is a philosopher not a sociologist

Thank you very much for uploading this!

Actually Merton distinctly uses the term *Communism* and not communalism, perhaps deliberately so, especially when speaking against the rise of facism.

Which sociologists said that Kuhn killed philosophy of science?

Sociology explains philosophy and physics? And the neuroscientists be like: We explain sociology.

@SisyphusRedeemed

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, everybody tries to 'get behind' everyone else.

You loosed your objectivity here. Philosophy is just metaphysics and sociology is also metaphysics. I don't know why you would let your prejudice reduce your objectivity. Are are insecure ?

4 minutes of disclaimers. Pass.

"It was hard for Eddington to go out and test Einstein's ideas because Einstein was German and Eddington was British? And they were at war?" Are you implying that Einstein was fighting *with* the Nazis?? Einstein was Jewish, man! He had to flee Europe exactly because of the Nazis!

@garretmerriam7972

3 жыл бұрын

This was during World War 1. The Germans and the British were on opposite sides of that conflict, too.