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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Point taken! But there is a lot of very interesting work integrating eg standpoint epistemology into a realist scientific worldview users.uoa.gr/~psillos/Paper and even Latour conceding that critique was firing at the wrong targets bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/
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