Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In which I discuss my latest obsession, the philosophy of science, and the books it's driven me to read.
The link to Paul Meehl’s lectures: youtube.com/watch?v=AEPbzCTneDs&list=PLISEtDmihMo3__om8F2IZB_FDwNKG18XW
This link should take you to a PDF of the reading list that Paul Meehl handed out in his class: https://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.umn.edu/files/files/videophilpsy1989readinglist.pdf
The Dr. Fatima video I reference: youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU&pp=ygURZHIgZmF0aW1hIGdhbGlsZW_YBrYb
Books discussed:
Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference by Zoltan Dienes
Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science by Carl Hempel
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation by Ernest Nagel
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes by Imre Lakatos
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World by Wesley Salmon
Progress and Its Problems by Larry Laudan
Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper
Readings in the Philosophy of Science (2nd edition), edited by Baruch Brody and Richard Grandy
Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, edited by Richard Donovan, Larry Laudan, and Rachel Laudan
Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge by Hans Reichenbach
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
If want to find me elsewhere:
I'm on Instagram as a_cruel_readers_thesis: instagram.com/a_cruel_readers_thesis/?hl=en
And of course Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/43502665-lukas-sotola
In which I discuss my latest obsession, the philosophy of science, and the books it's driven me to read.
The link to Paul Meehl’s lectures: youtube.com/watch?v=AEPbzCTneDs&list=PLISEtDmihMo3__om8F2IZB_FDwNKG18XW
This link should take you to a PDF of the reading list that Paul Meehl handed out in his class: https://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.umn.edu/files/files/videophilpsy1989readinglist.pdf
The Dr. Fatima video I reference: youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU&pp=ygURZHIgZmF0aW1hIGdhbGlsZW_YBrYb
Books discussed:
Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference by Zoltan Dienes
Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science by Carl Hempel
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation by Ernest Nagel
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes by Imre Lakatos
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World by Wesley Salmon
Progress and Its Problems by Larry Laudan
Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper
Readings in the Philosophy of Science (2nd edition), edited by Baruch Brody and Richard Grandy
Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, edited by Richard Donovan, Larry Laudan, and Rachel Laudan
Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge by Hans Reichenbach
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
If want to find me elsewhere:
I'm on Instagram as a_cruel_readers_thesis: instagram.com/a_cruel_readers_thesis/?hl=en
And of course Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/43502665-lukas-sotola
