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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Many scientists have the wrong PoS (empiricism, instrumentalism, positivism). That can lead them astray since there is no way to do science without PoS. But they all have one. And when they do create knowledge anyway, they’re doing something that’s the object of the study of PoS.
All scientists have assumptions, biases, world-views, methods, norms, traditions, and blind spots. That's not the same as having a 'philosophy of science' in the sense that philosophers of science mean it.
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When they have a method it is.
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If a car mechanic has a method for replacing struts, do they have a 'philosophy of struts'?
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