Why do *I* always get stuck with the thankless, grindy tasks the official experts in the field evade responsibility for?
Professional historians of science managed to gloss over “why exactly did logical positivism fail” because it was hard, so I had to write that up. Now this.
Professional historians of science managed to gloss over “why exactly did logical positivism fail” because it was hard, so I had to write that up. Now this.
Historians’ passing over of the death of logical positivism: the camera tastefully cuts away from the scene and all we hear are muffled screams in another room. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
They had to kill everyone off before starting the sequel (“Postmodernism Does Science”), but they’d written themselves into a corner.
Coming up with a convincing story for how the heroes of Season One all suddenly died would take way too much exposition. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
Coming up with a convincing story for how the heroes of Season One all suddenly died would take way too much exposition. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
You’d think there’d be some drama around the slaughter of all the invincible superheroes of Science, but no, that wasn’t in the budget, so they just dropped a bridge on the whole thing. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
Reading the standard summary, you’d think a wave of barbaric irrationalism swept over the world, and the Glory That Was Science was extinguished.
But logical positivism was already dead and decomposing before Kuhn showed up. metarationality.com/logical-positi…
But logical positivism was already dead and decomposing before Kuhn showed up. metarationality.com/logical-positi…
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