Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)

from Rapid Idea Improvement · host Bart Vanderhaegen

In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

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