In my view the nature of the argument has more to do with general human failings (we fall back on "us" v "them" when we need to change people's minds), but yes, I think scientists in general sometimes fear to go too deep (philosophy)...
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... and of course we can point to the overall success of the enterprise as evidence that not thinking too deeply works. At least Physics, Chemistry and Biology can.
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... But those disciplines have well developed theories. Psychology has not really got that far, yet. Understandable for the first 100 years, not so much now.
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I'm not convinced biology has better theories than psychology to be honest.
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Ha! Well, you know - DNA, RNA, genes, selection etc. Admittedly many of these feel like established empirical facts already, but they started as theories. I struggle to think of comparable ideas in Psychology.
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If "DNA" is a good example in your opinion of a theory what stops "memory" from being a good one, or "neurons" or "learning"? Asking because I genuinely don't think psych is that bad for theories given these comparisons, but we can improve a lot.
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I am not trying to antagonize you though, and I know what you mean - Physics/Chemistry are older and the theories are correspondingly more mature.
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Kind of a continuum, although I do feel that Psychology is now lagging dangerously behind. As if it doesn't really want to be a science.
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Some subareas of psych have a death wish. Even if the individual actors don't see it.
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IMO, there has always been a fear of being wrong, leading to "zombie" "theories" that can never die. This seems more true of psychology than other disciplines.
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Lakatos has something to say about that but all I see is a Popperian hellscape, to paraphrase Brad's BBS comment.https://twitter.com/ProfData/status/1083423006045683712?s=19 …
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