So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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I’m not sure about this, and I’d like to hear from an insider. But I *think* that the answer is that they figured out that the rationalist stories were all wrong—starting with Kuhn in 1962, and then then “Stanford Disunity Mafia” worked out the details in the 1980s. >
And then the field imploded. It was only funded because scientists wanted philosophers to tell the world that Science is the one true way to Truth, and philosophers stopped saying that. >
And also the philosophers didn’t have a positive alternative—an explanation of how science *does* work which would point to ways we could do it better. That’s what I’m trying to do.
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