Last night I tried to describe the rationalist community to a friend who had never heard of it. I struggled, but finally settled on describing it as "A school of philosophy that arose on the internet rather than in the academy."
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As an outside observer I’ve been curious about this. Does the movement link back to the somewhat traditional definitions of rationalism vs empiricism? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/ …
tbh i’m not familiar enough to weigh in. my sense is that the rationalist community kinda sidesteps most historical philosophy / doesn’t attempt to integrate itself into their traditions
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I think this is right; and also that they’ve repeated many historical mistakes that could have been avoided by reading some history of 20th century rationalism. Especially, the conclusive failure (around 1960) of probabilistic theories of induction.
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First principles, amirite
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