EM = ethnomethodology? Thanks for clarifying the distinction between Lynch & Latour. I'll check out Lynch's book. Given the clarity of your other writing, I'm sure you'll succeed, if you can finish.
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Yes, EM = ethnomethodology I wouldn't actually recommend the book. It's extremely tedious but it was important for me to make sure I understood the framework. If you are interested I can try and point you at some worked-out examples instead!
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Examples would be great! I'm very curious about how it could reject probability & Bayesianism but still have use for science.
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Distinction between technical rationality = ways of applying formal methods in concrete real-world situations & rationalism = metaphysical claims that some sort of rationality guarantees correctness, optimality, or some other epistemic wonderfulness
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Yes, the -isms present all sorts of problems, don't they? Still, I wonder how prevalent the belief is that rationality guarantees correctness or optimality. My perspective may be skewed, but I see widespread understanding among scientists that truth is probabilistic.
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Oh, sure, absolutely; but Bayesian rationalism comes with strong metaphysical claims of optimality and correctness (certainty at the methodological level, not the object level) that cannot be sustained.
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Unfortunately there’s no good intro text for the ethnomethodology of science. A nice example of the work is this one on the first optical observation of a pulsar. However, the jargon is dense at the analytic framework is so alien to what you are used to that it may be opaque…
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Citation here, I can’t find the original journal page off hand: http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/browser.php?key=Garfinkel1981&bib=emca.bib …
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David Chapman Retweeted David Chapman
A live-tweeted co-reading of the paper with
@drossbucket, who did her PhD on neutron stars, ended here. It may help clarify the jargon & concepts. Our conversation branched some & twitter doesn’t do tree threading, but this is probably the longest branch:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/914591862509379585 …David Chapman added,
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mrgunn Retweeted Lulie
Reading the thread, but thought you might like this Twitter tree viewing thing:https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1123292851339780096 …
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Extension installed, thanks! This turns out to have been a very long and somewhat wide conversation:pic.twitter.com/yIfwLMKMdk
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