Lesson of Gettier is that JTB is wrong & useless epistemology. Should have motivated empirical investigation of how, actually, people know.
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Tradition prevents philosophers actually attempting to find anything out, so just tried to find clever word-game epicyclic patches to JTB.
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Meanwhile, anthropologists like Ed Hutchins http://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/ have found out a lot about how people know by actually observing them.
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@Meaningness do you have a 140/280-char summary of Hutchins? :) I'm partial to Popper myself, but intrigued by an anthropological approach3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler Popper had important insights, but disconfirmation is not, empirically, how science actually works.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness I take Popper's project as an explanation of how knowledge grows, not how human primates actually do science — FWIW2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Sounds like a different project from Hutchins'. Any thoughts on Feyerabend/Against Method?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler It’s been a billion years since I read that. I liked it then, but I think now I probably wouldn’t. Don’t remember much about it1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness I haven't read it... just have second- and third-hand impressions :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler I think he was right that there is no The Scientific Method, nor any specific methods that guarantee truth.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@KevinSimler But I think he was wrong to then conclude that science doesn’t reach truth, and isn’t any better than astrology.
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