The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Science

THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: What is a scientific paradigm? Richard Koenigsberg

Victor Gijsbers

Victor Gijsbers provides the best explication and discussion of the concept of a scientific paradigm that I’ve seen, heard, read–anywhere. Required listening (only 10 minutes long).

Click Here to View: first video is called, “Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science.”

Paradigm: all the theories, concepts, methods and measuring instruments that a scientific discipline takes for granted and that directs research in that discipline. Continue reading The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?

Yiddish Book Center Interview with Arnold Richards

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 18, 2021August 18, 2021 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to View: Yiddish Book Center Interview with Arnold Richards from 2012.

My Mother’s Secret Memoirs

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 18, 2021August 18, 2021 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: My Mother’s Secret Memoirs: In the years after the Holocaust, she wrote about her experiences, but never shared with me what she’d written BY Lev Raphael io the Tablet website on August 16, 2021.

Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report By Matt McGrath on the BBC News website on August 9, 2021, Satelite image from NASA showning wildfires from Athens, Greece in 5 August 2021 Image: worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Assault on Empiricism

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: From crime to climate change, the hostility of ‘movements’ to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems BY Wilfred Reilly on the Tablet website on August 11, 2021.
Proud Boys at Confederate protest with Fred Perry polo Image: Anthony Crider. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Hints of a new fundamental force

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Hints of a new fundamental force: Are we on the brink of a breakthrough in particle physics? Harry Cliff on the iai website on August 9, 2021.
CERN, Geneva, particle accelerator Image: x70tjw Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Psychology is in a crisis. But not the one you’re thinking of

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 16, 2021August 16, 2021 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Psychology is in a crisis. But not the one you’re thinking of: Can we still have faith in psychology in the face of the ‘replication crisis’? Perhaps, but the field has a much larger problem to tackle. By Dr Lisa Feldman-Barrett on the Science Focus website on August 12th, 2021.|
Image: Ben Taylor, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.