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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 1 Oct 2017
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      Yeah, they buried the point due to certain internal conceptual contradictions in the ethnometho program that the field never resolved

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Oct 2017
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      A central ethno tenet is that you try to observe without bringing in any theoretical presuppositions, and you don’t generalize other than >

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      on the basis of enormous amounts of pretheoretical observational data. But this is not actually possible. Here they want to both claim >

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      strong confirmation of their theoretical framework based on n=1 observation, and to make strong metaphysical points about perception&objects

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      while simultaneously pretending they aren’t doing that. I suspect this contradiction can be resolved via separating the rational & metarat

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      levels of analysis, which might rescue the ethno project, which afaict has been basically dead for 25 years. But not sure!

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      While googling for this paper I found a number of commentaries on it, notably from rationalists who took GLL as relativist Idealists, i.e. >

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      the rats thought GLL were claiming that the pulsar was conjured into existence by “social construction” or something, which misses the point

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      My impression is that ethno was collateral damage in the 1990s Science Wars (Sokal etc).

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      Many sociology-of-science people actually were “social constructionists” in an Idealist sense: there’s no physical reality, it’s all talk

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      And that wasn’t the ethnometho line at all. Rather they were trying to get at the process whereby the independent physical reality could >

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Oct 2017
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          occasion and be characterized more-or-less accurately BY talk, which is exactly what philosophy of science would need to do, but failed at.

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