A very thorough look at the clarity, reason & epistemological concerns many people otherwise inclined to be sympathetic to at least some of Dr Peterson's views have raised & an explanation of why It is so frustrating & often fruitless to raise them.https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve …
I don't think anyone denies that he is inspirational. That's part of the problem. You echo his pragmatic approach - it doesn't matter if it's actually true but whether it does the job. Of course we disagree on what the job that needs doing is. If its just inspiring ppl...
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>You echo his pragmatic approach - it doesn't matter if it's actually true but whether it does the job. I am relatively pragmatic, philosophically, but this is not a fair depiction of pragmatism. If anything, I see _far_ more indifference to truth among Peterson's opponents.
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I think the most pragmatic epistemology is to assume the validity of the Cartesian cogito and a few basic mathematical axioms, deduce forward from them, and handle inductive inference statistically where practical, or otherwise via the most reliable known precedent or experiment.
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