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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 10 Nov 2019
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      🧵 100 years ago today, the New York Times announced the death of rationalism.pic.twitter.com/0z9rqicWfB

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      The NYT reported Eddington’s announcement that a measurement of the deflection of starlight by the gravitational field of the sun had confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment …pic.twitter.com/v2aDN8Myl3

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Retroactively, after decades of difficult work by top philosophers, we understand this test of relativity as a triumph of the scientific worldview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity …pic.twitter.com/nazVLAd7F3

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      For decades, general relativity was popularly felt as a disastrous disconfirmation of the scientific worldview. Rationalism collapsed as a source of certainty, and never fully recovered. One could date the first crack of postmodernity to 100 years ago today.pic.twitter.com/ZoJFigDCCz

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    5. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      I get the point you are making, but the NYT blathering doesn't look to me like "loss of confidence in rationality"; it looks to me like "know-nothing journalists trying to get clicks". The difference from 200 yrs prior is not mentality, it's pundits trying to excite idiots.

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    6. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      I think among ACTUAL math+physics it was much more of a slow burn. Cantor, pathological functions, Banach-Tarski, and floundering around QM. I don't see relativity as part of this because relativity is just not that hard, and fits into the mainstream tradition.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Yes, this is now the received view. If you read stuff from the 1920s, relativity was considered a disastrous anomaly that urgently needed philosophical repair. That persisted in popular understanding into the 1970s even. More on that downthread.

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        2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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          Considered such by whom? Seriously. I've read a lot on the physics side and I don't get that feeling. Are you saying this was the feeling in the humanities and philosophy department? If so, I suspect that was driven as much by the war.

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          For example all that Euclid worship, that ended among people who know what they are talking about in the mid-1800s. Klein is 19th C work, not 20th C. Likewise Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie. Hence my point that this seems to me PUNDIT reaction, not scientist reaction.

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