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?
I'm not entirely sure what your goal is here though. If you disagree with my facetious observation, obviously, that's fine.
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Well I’m trying to understand why you think this is such a catastrophe. It’s not as if LP and Positivism don’t have contemporary adherents making persuasive cases: see Ross and Ladyman’s “Everything must Go” it was a great book and widely praised
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"Why do you think this is bad?" is probably not a bad question TBH. Mainly because I think it's wrong. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
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Well certainly some forms of it are wrong, and it’s a pet peeve of mine that many psychologists and neuroscientists tend to ignore foundational philosophical problems more than they should. But I’m not sure the other methods of obtaining knowledge are any better.
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