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I've never met a scientist whose actual research or theorizing was influenced by philosophy of science. The philosophers are just shouting into the void.https://twitter.com/hardsci/status/1127260246689239041 …
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Fodor was making empirical claims about the functional design of cognitive systems, based on previous scientific research. He was doing theoretical psychology.
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This is false. When I was in grad school for philosophy, my office was next to a philosopher science who specializes in quantum physics, and physicists were constantly stopping by to discuss the implications of their work.
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I've met a few physicists who talked philosophy of science, but it didn't seem to influence their research or theorizing at all. Just idle chatter.
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Because evolutionary psychology was never influenced by Fodor's modularity/nativism....
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Fair point. Cosmides & Tooby were influenced by Fodor. So that's two.
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1) You almost certainly have. 2) This shouldn’t be a point of pride. ...just a coupla pennies here.
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The following philosophers (selection) convinced me mainstream cog. psychology is so seriously misguided, that much empirical work has effectively been a waste of time and money; - H Dreyfus - M Merleau-Ponty - L Suchman - D Kirsh - A Clark - T Ingold - M Heidegger - J Dewey
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And more recently: D Ihde PP Verbeek B Latour H de Jaegher E Thompson Plato Artistoteles Avicenna M Nagenborg O Kudina and of course P Haselager, always.
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