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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 17 May 2019
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      I take pride in having published academic papers with ridiculous titles, but I’m a tyro compared to Harold Garfinkel.pic.twitter.com/IMXNR2Qfea

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 May 2019
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      “Hanging around in laboratories” is, nonetheless, the way you find out how science actually works (which is almost perfectly dissimilar to the way philosophers say science MUST work based on their deep armchair contemplations).

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    3. Phil C‏ @SunWuTzu 17 May 2019
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      This is a poor characterisation of the philosophy of science.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 May 2019
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      Hmm. Depends on the specific philosopher, maybe. Maybe you have exceptions in mind? Few of them have spent much time in labs, afaik. I’d contrast ethnographers such as Phillipe Sormani and Park Doing, who spent years full-time in a lab all day, actually doing the work.

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    5. Phil C‏ @SunWuTzu 17 May 2019
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      Philosophy is different to ethnography and isn't invalidated by not hanging around in labs. How did Feyerabend say science MUST work, for example? Your account of science would exclude how Einstein arrived at his field equations.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 May 2019
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      Well, those are reasonable objections. However: Feyerabend was out to lunch; and Einstein’s way of doing science was extremely atypical and not at all like what most scientists do.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 May 2019
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      Hmm, “out to lunch” is unnecessarily derogatory. His criticisms of the then-mainstream were largely accurate, and his sometimes-absurd claims were probably useful in shaking the field out of its rationalist complacency. I don’t think he had a useful positive analysis though.

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    8. Phil C‏ @SunWuTzu 17 May 2019
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      Anything goes not 'positive' enough for you? And who made positivity (whatever that means) a necessary condition of anything?

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 17 May 2019
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      Well, it doesn’t explain how to do science well, which is what I care about. Alternatively, if one wanted a purely descriptive theory, then *anything* goes seems not to be saying much. There’s no hard line for the demarcation problem, but ballet and science are not the same thing

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        1. Phil C‏ @SunWuTzu 17 May 2019
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          The philosophy of science isn't a practical subject, it isn't there to tell anyone how to do science 'well.' This is a misunderstanding of the endeavour.

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