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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 Jan 12
      Replying to @Counteredlogos

      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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    2. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But Newtonian physics hasn't survived. Science undid it.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
      Replying to @Counteredlogos

      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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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
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      Science survives. The knowledge it produces is provisional, constantly corrected & updated.

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    5. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But content changes method, they develop together

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
      Replying to @Counteredlogos

      Yes.

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    7. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      So what endures? Commitment to truth?

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
      Replying to @Counteredlogos

      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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    9. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      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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    10. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
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      And yes aeroplanes, computers, and antibiotics are great. We just need science now to deal with climate change and antibiotic resistant bugs and I'll love it even more.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
      Replying to @Counteredlogos

      Me too. It's the only thing that can and this is why antimodernists undermining or rejecting it worry me so much.

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        2. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Well I don't know if it can or not, nor if it does what shadows the next set of redemptive eurekas will cast. Maybe that's the nub of where we differ.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
          Replying to @Counteredlogos

          I don't know what you mean.

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        4. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          On the point where we differ I meant that science or rather civilisations each create their own problems. Liberal democracy and the scientific paradigm has its problems. I suspect its problems will eventually destroy it, and another group of civilisations will replace it.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
          Replying to @Counteredlogos

          Quite possibly. I wouldn't bother arguing to preserve it if I didn't think it was in danger.

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        6. Jacob Phillips‏ @Counteredlogos Jan 12
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Well I suppose I'm interested in what endures from it

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 12
          Replying to @Counteredlogos

          It could be anything from Islam to socialism to pure capitalism. I don't favour a wait and see approach. I'll argue for liberal secular democracy.

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