Paradigmatic progress in the sciences has stalled since the 1970ies. There is disagreement about whether we have just figured out all the relevant paradigms, or whether we shifted from answering questions (which is cross disciplinary) to applying methods (cementing disciplines).
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Please be more concrete. What do you mean by context in which they had effective debates? Conferences? correspondence, socially? It sounds too easy to vary to be much of an explanation of anything.
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Intellectually liberal symposia and workshops still exist (like FQXI), but they don’t seem to have a small effect on what gets tenure and grants. Even the interdisciplinary centers at top US universities don’t chat with the Weltgeist very much.
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And you still haven't address the Deutsch issue.
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I don’t think there is an issue. David has a relatively small following, is mostly ignored by philosophers (because of method, I’m guessing), and his books are listed under «physics» - presumably because someone with a phd in physics couldn’t write about anything else.
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