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Michael Strevens, NYU
Thursday, May 02, 2024, 12:00pm
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Michael Strevens, PhD

Professor

Philosophy Department

New York University

 

The Highly Effective Irrationality of Science

 

Modern science has done amazing things: creating covid vaccines, sending humans to the moon, finding the ultimate nature of light. What makes it so powerful—and so different from the attempts to understand nature made by the philosophers and monks of old? Leaping from Aristotle to gravitational waves, Michael Strevens argues that much of science’s power derives from an epistemic limitation that can only be understood as irrational. The paradigmatic scientist is a paradigmatic reasoner in many ways, but in at least one way, their perfection as a scientist lies in the deliberate cultivation of a gaping intellectual blind spot.

 

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Host: Bruce Futcher

Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101

A light lunch will be served following the seminar in Laufer Hub 110

 

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