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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Apr 2019
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      “The engineer is a myth”: an important insight, that all engineering involves some bricolage [which I call “circumrational support”]. OTOH, the distinction, though nebulous, is obviously still real and important. We won’t let Derrida get away with collapsing it altogether.pic.twitter.com/t3ZFYBxUyt

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    2. Lucy Keer‏ @drossbucket 1 May 2019
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      Glad I got back here just in time for bricolage and Derrida :)

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      Yeah, I’m reading Michael Lynch’s _Scientific practice and ordinary action_ (1993), which is extremely tedious but also extremely important (which is why I put it off for so long and also why I’m reading it now). I thought of you several times while reading it and may send notes

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      Finally around page 275 he gets to the point, viz and explanation of how the ethnomethodological approach fixes all the big confusions in the philosophy and sociology of science.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      Think I may summarize this in a post tentatively titled “Harold Garfinkel’s one weird trick.” The trick is to notice that whatever unsolvable metaphysical problem theorists are wrestling with, scientists treat the same issue as a practical, solvable one.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      “How can scientists gain reliable knowledge of the physical world—what is The Scientific Method” versus “How can I adjust the pH of the electrophoresis buffer to get a clean blot that tells me whether protein A binds to protein B?”

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    7.  🕷BenjaminP.Taylor 🇪🇺‏ @antlerboy 1 May 2019
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      Wittgenstein would recognise this I think :-)

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      Yes! Roughly the middle third of the book is a discussion of the different ways Philosophical Investigations has been interpreted as applying to science. Lynch sensibly says that taking Wittgenstein as an oracle and trying to recover his original intention is not the point, >

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @antlerboy @drossbucket

      but also that clarifying different ways of understanding _PI_ helps clarify how different schools of science studies understand scientific activity differently.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 May 2019
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      I do think Lynch’s own approach is enormously promising, and he and his students have done some exciting work (like the pulsar paper @drossbucket and I co-read a couple years ago), but the promise is mainly unfulfilled, which is super frustrating. More Work Needed.

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