Very interesting piece. However, I do not say that we need to go backwards and in fact, addressed that accusation in the piece cited when I argue that the modern project & liberalism is inherently progressive. https://areomagazine.com/2017/12/08/the-problem-with-truth-and-reason-in-a-post-truth-society/ …https://twitter.com/QuilletteM/status/951445892480909315 …
Science as knowledge will survive. Science as an institution is threatened in different ways by the far-right and far-left.
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But Newtonian physics hasn't survived. Science undid it.
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Yes, science is self-correcting. It holds that knowledge is always provisional and tries to falsify findings to weed out error.
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Science survives. The knowledge it produces is provisional, constantly corrected & updated.
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But content changes method, they develop together
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So what endures? Commitment to truth?
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Knowledge seeking by testing, falsifying, replicating. We have gained considerable scientific knowledge though methods change and things once thought true are refuted. In fact, that's how we have gained things like aeroplanes, computers & antibiotics.
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Of course. But I'm fascinated by accounts of scientists discovering things which undermine even the classical inductive method, but that's not to say I think we can revert to before Francis Bacon or that I'm dismissing the whole enterprise.
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