I.INTRODUCTION
D. What is Science?
D. What is Science?
§3.
Addresses solvable problems
§Questions
that can’t be answered by using the scientific method are rejected as unscientific.
§Science can deal only with ideas that can be tested. But what is “scientific” changes,
as new technologies are used to measure phenomena and test ideas.
§PET and fMRI techniques in
brain research has lead to theories of the neurological basis of consciousness.
§We
will consider the concept of solvable problems in Chap. 2 in Stanovich
§It
will come up in Chaps. 8 and 9 when we consider how scientific ideas change in
psychology.