All calls to unify the sciences and humanities are attempts by cognitivists to establish hegemony over both.https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Intellectual-War-on/242538?key=VUoegFJonv4-gPdfGkNzjwL5cdI9L5prPSDsTd4xWZnsCQwj9m-Tmvk0CWWLCS24dzg1cnFobUpLZ3lBQjBrOVF0UzBlS29rX0NjWWtHRzEwN084YTM1MXMwQQ …
-
-
Empiricism is not STEM though. This is about Empiricism taking over both STEM and the humanities.
-
Do you mean the kind of empty “science-without-philosophy” that seems to have risen to dominance in the past decades? Scientism? Please help me here, I am not very well versed in this stuff.
-
No, this is all about a philosophy - Empiricism (Locke, Hume, etc) - trying to establish itself as an unassailable dogma by first turning itself into a fake 'science' (cognitive science) and then advocating for the replacement of the humanities with that 'science'.
-
It has already managed to largely displace philosophy (under the guise of 'naturalism', which is supposed to be deference to 'science', but in practice means deference to cognitive science, which is actually just Empiricist philosophy).
-
They have their eyes on the rest of humanities because other non-Empiricist philosophies hide out there. Getting 'poststructuralism' out of literary criticism, social studies, etc, and replacing it with 'cognitive science' would give Empiricism a total monopoly.
-
Would you mind letting me know if you have a degree in philosophy and from where?
-
I’m practicing philosophy without a license.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
if i was locked in a room with materialist scientism and critical theory, and a revolver with one bullet, i think the former would probably get the bullet before adorno/marcuse/kristeva/fanon ever does haha.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.