Why are these so many logical positivists and scientism supporters around these days? What happened? Are we re-running the 20th century but with a different random seed and the tech BS parameter set higher?
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If anything I would say there is an obsession with formal methods, which is affecting the subfield I am in. negatively, even though it might seem to superficially help the greater field as a whole.
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Ironically, computational modelling (my subfield) is highly formalised, but not in the way the field seems to understand or appreciate.
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But I am interested in what you think is going wrong (?) that needs more aspects of logical positivism (as opposed to something else) in the field?
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Oh right, sorry. I’m not sure, but I think psychology (my intellectual birthplace, so to speak) could certainly benefit from greater scrutiny of concepts and theories. Where there is almost no serious work on such things.
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Again, I agree like above, but I am not convinced (like I said) that me agreeing with this is the same as me being a logical positivist.
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