“Scientism is a term generally used to describe the facile application of science in unwarranted situations not covered by the scientific method.” — Wikipedia
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
Reminds me of Susan Haack's Six Signs of Scientism https://pervegalit.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/haack-six-signs-of-scientism-october-17-2009.pdf …pic.twitter.com/V1LsDc20eZ
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The most amusing thing about scientism is: "Ironically, scientism proponents, despite it being a philosophical epistemological position in and of itself, completely reject philosophy, ethics, and the reasons why logical positivism (an almost identical, although less extreme
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version of this philosophy) failed. As such it is completely self-annihilating, even though many prominent pop scientists implicitly or explicitly promote it." http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Scientism
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Thanks for that reference, Olivia. “Proponents of scientism believe that science is inherently moral. They are mistaken. Science on its own cannot tell us right from wrong.” I already had a sense that the naturalistic fallacy was playing a role as well.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
Science cannot tell us right from wrong on its own, but after defining some basis of values, science can contribute to assessing success in fulfilling them. For example, 1 can define more core as to minimize harm. Then, science can help construct a structure around that.
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Replying to @PaulRoundy1 @IrisVanRooij and
We are all scientists discussing the dangers of Scientism, which are relatively independent of the of the practice of science itself.
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Replying to @twitemp1 @PaulRoundy1 and
My goodness, did I write that? Wow, well, changing my mind mid sentence is certainly not a good idea. ;)
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