Linguistics in the second half of the 20th century is an extreme example. It claimed “the study of language,” but narrowed to arguments about notational variants for formal grammars that were supposed to account for the syntactic grammaticality judgements of expert linguists.
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Linguistics in that era ruthlessly suppressed anyone who dared discuss any form of empirical data, which Chomsky defined out of existence as “performance”; or who wanted to address actual language use.
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If you wanted to learn anything about language during that period, you had to do it in the psychology or sociology department. But they had their own narrow methodological shibboleths, and there was no field that broadly addressed the phenomenon.
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“We already have a field explaining sci/tech progress” would be more plausible if advocates cited one of them, rather than eight. It would also be more plausible if those fields advocated practical, concrete actions that would accelerate progress…
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I don’t know the primary literature well, although I’ve read some of it. Generally I like it, but my impression is that later developments pretty much overtook the whole thing. IOW I don’t know of something they did that wasn’t done more thoroughly later. Did I miss something?
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Yes, and late Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, and interactionist/e-word psychology, &...
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there's a nice set of dreyfus lectures to go along with that: https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120554 … he also recommends this book to go along with this course: https://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Being-Time-Readers-Guides/dp/0826486096 … [i haven't had the time to go thru this book]
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