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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Will Wilkinson  🌐

      OK, well that is where our fundamental disagreement lies. You think the arguments of our papers were actually sound and we wanted to show that people genuinely think this. I am unlikely to convince you to change your epistemology & ethics so we can leave it here.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1050074682588848129 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      Will Wilkinson  🌐Verified account @willwilkinson
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Dan_Carrigg and 7 others
      But this seems like a reasonable hypothesis, well worth entertaining and thinking about it. Did you show that transphobia isn't a thing? No. Did you show that it's ridiculous to think that attitudes toward anal penetration don't relate to attitudes about gender identity? No.
      8 replies 5 retweets 54 likes
    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I don't think they're sound. In my own field, philosophy, we constantly talk about whether physical objects are real, whether time is an illusion, whether a down-to-the-atom replica of a person can lack consciousness. Before you can do science, you have to throw ideas around.

      4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson Oct 10
      Replying to @willwilkinson @HPluckrose

      You seem to be implying that tossing around hypotheses and exploring their contours before leaping right into an empirical test is an illegitimate enterprise for serious scholars. I vehemently disagree.

      6 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson Oct 10
      Replying to @willwilkinson @HPluckrose

      One of my heroes, Peirce, noted that the hardest and most valuable part of science, creative hypothesis generation, is the least like "science." It's imaginative, playful. There's a division of labor in inquiry, and poets are better at some of it than hard-science technicians.

      4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @willwilkinson

      I don't know where you are going now but this is why I dislike these conversations. They meander and jump from one thing to another and nothing ever resolved or even properly understood.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Okay.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @willwilkinson

      Thank you. Feel free to consider me intellectually sloppy & I could think of you as obscurantist and slippery but the fact is that we are talking in different languages and conceptions & will not agree. We can try again another time to speak plainly and be charitable.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @willwilkinson

      I admit that I was irritable and not extending much charity myself.

      11:30 AM - 10 Oct 2018
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        1. Jes‏ @jhh827 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @willwilkinson

          Everyone has their limits...and SHOULD! Without limits the crazy ppl just go on & on while PRETENDING to listen to rebuttal!

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