Michael Strevens is a philosopher of science at New York University, primarily working on complex systems, scientific explanation, the social structure of science and philosophical applications of cognitive science. Outside of academia, he is best known for his book 'The Knowledge Machine' in which he explains why science is so successful at creating knowledge and why it took so long for humans to figure out how to do it right. In this episode, we discuss the 'great method debate', which started with Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn and is ongoing today, the iron rule of explanation in science, the ontological status of the Subject, AI and Slavoj Žižek. The Knowledge Machine: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-knowledge-machine-9780141981260 ---------------------------------------   {Podcast} Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le⁠⁠⁠ Anchor: ⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam⁠⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠https://rsampod.substack.com/⁠   Website} ⁠https://rahulsam.me/⁠   {Social Media} ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/trsam97⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/⁠⁠⁠   --------------------------------------- If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting ⁠⁠⁠https://theunhappyman.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠ ---------------------------------------   Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please send me an email at [email protected], and we can sort it out. Thank you.