& by 'empirically managed' i assume that you are referring to policy. i prefer the term empirically culled for that. empirics is one element
Of course scientists don't recognise that conclusions shouldn't be based on evidence! It's a ludicrous claim.
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Sam Harris is explicit about this with his attempt to resurrect a science of morality
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No. He isn't. That is what the landscape symbolism is about. The many different ways of seeking the goal of improving human wellbeing.
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anyhow i think i made my earlier point. scientists who engage in public policy don't, at a very basic level think Hume's guillotine exists
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I'm going to mute you now because you never actually say anything. Just waffle on vaguely without any noticeable point.
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actually i was pretty clear about it Helen but you seem to act as if these problems are somehow new and havent been broguht up by others
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At least then I'd know what you're getting at. No need for all this vague meandering about never actually saying anything.
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Harris was mentioned in passing but there are others like him. You seem to be in denial that such problems exist
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I've said nothing at all about this & I still don't know what you're talking about in relationship to it.
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but the same assumptions underlie a lot of scientific thinking in the realm of public policy
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- or if there are multiple options, that only one of them will be the "obviously" moral choice.
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There is a tendency to believe either that a correct understanding of the science will yield only one policy choice
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sorry i am not understanding. are you saying they recognize the is/ought distinction? Most of them dont
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