I'm going to classify Pinker as a Empiricist High Modernist by analogy to Authoritarian High Modernist.
He wields the authority of data in a way that makes me suspect something illegible is being left out.
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Pinker is not saying new that hasn't been debated in STS or philosophy of science for decades. The problem of not reading outside your box.
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That's not a disqualification for me. I in fact approve of people ignoring other fields and rediscovering things.
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I feel similarly about Jordan Peterson. He’s the first one to figure out how to fight the bad science of the radical left with even more bad science.
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I think you’re giving him *too* much credit. He likes to assign the virtues of empirical/quantitative science to social science without engaging with dissenting thought that distinguish between empirical and social science.
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