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 …
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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feels gerrymandery to me, but i could be on board. fwiw some of his modularity stuff (not the stuff you cite) was published in the journal "philosophy of science" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/289162 …. so you'd say that sometimes that journal publishes theoretical psychology that isn't philsci
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It's an edge case, and you make fair points. My general message is, philosophy of science as currently practiced has very little influence on the everyday practices of scientists. Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but it doesn't.
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Anybody seen any *true* Scotsmen around here? Been looking all over the place. :\
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