But it's not a work of philosophy. It's key claim is that If there were not abundant empirical evidence showing species to be arbitrary, then it would...
I think you're missing the point of protest. Elections are utterly trivial in political terms because they are just a snapshot of what the electorate ...
It's an interesting line of investigation for sure, particularly the actions AI would have to demonstrate before we're prepared to label them 'rationa...
Evidence that there are fundamental problems. It's not that hard. What I don't do is simply assume there are fundamental problems because there used t...
Well fortunately our scientific models do not turn on whether you're impressed by them. @"Snakes Alive", I'm beginning to see the issue here with rega...
Firstly, I'm curious as to how you know this because there are quite a few scientists working in the field of animal neurology who'd be interested in ...
So you're saying that if "our ability to reason and navigate is not grounded in our ability to discern meaning" we'd all be chasing sticks or somethin...
Again, not a metaphysical question. This claim is either meaningless or amenable to empirical evidence. Is our ability to reason and navigate grounded...
No there genuinely aren't. So what would constitue an answer? What would you expect to see in a newspaper after the headline "Turns out the idea of ap...
I agree, but I don't think there's sufficient evidence to draw from this behaviour in the realm of discourse a conclusion that this extends to beliefs...
I really don't think we've 'established' that at all. What I've been arguing for it that of the non-science, non-fact influences, culture is more impo...
A very comprehensive summary, thanks. As you say, I think layer one is trivially true and the interest lies primarily in the mechanism by which layer ...
Ha. No, that's not quite what I meant. I just meant that we're both sensible enough to know that cultural bias influences the sorts of hypotheses that...
Thanks for the links (I'm not always getting notifications when people mention me so I didn't see them until just now). A couple of well written piece...
Absolutely, but we'd have to assume nothing will ever change in these regimes if we assume that all people always do as they're told, so I prefer to t...
I really don't, honestly. I'm not trying to be picky here, I really cannot see a mechanism for infusing any meaningful kind of government policy into ...
I'm not getting the link here. How does the government's cackhanded attempt to make degrees into quantifiable commodities actually make any difference...
But even a completely accurate picture of Britain's colonial past will be nothing more than a weak gesture if we're carrying on with exactly the same ...
No there isn't. Universities are mostly private institutions and the state plays no part in their curriculum nor their decision about who to award doc...
You may have already seen it (it might even have been linked already), but the MPD150 report provides an outline of what defunding means in terms of t...
"Oppressive regimes - which we all know are bad places" is not a claim, it's a qualifier. Not the set {oppressive regimes}, but the subset {oppressive...
Probably not the place for a long discussion on this, but I tend to think the social acceptability of exploitation is the elephant in the room of most...
Which is exactly what I'm talking about. Who doesn't know about the riots in Minneapolis. Air time matters. True, I should be clear that I'm talking m...
I think we've reached a point where we might just have to agree to disagree. I completely agree with what you say about the mainstream media, but I do...
No. I have no idea where you're getting all that from. My claim is that I think you, I and anyone else taking part in this discussion would agree that...
Yes. I've just supplied the rest of my list, China and North Korea. No, that's not my claim in formal form, it's not any claim in formal form, its a c...
Possibly. The fact that the momentum is with issue A might be a reason to let it dominate discourse. I'm saying that it isn't a very good reason. We s...
I thought I'd explained that, but I'll try again. There is limited space in public discourse. We cannot maintain outrage at every injustice. There's o...
Yes, that's exactly what I'm claiming. There's no evidence that the state significantly dictates the direction of psychological research in countries ...
Well there is your problem. If people are not willing to spend another 60 euro to avoid supporting the use of children as young as 6 years old down a ...
Because apparently... This is the central issue, and I know I'll get pilloried for putting it in such crude terms, I hope there's some degree of under...
Firstly, they're not even more expensive, just less cool. It's partly a matter of generating social norms which requires a change in the way people th...
Well then I'll leave you to it. If you've no interest in what actually is the case but would rather waste time discussing what might be the case when ...
No, I don't think this is right at all. Its either naive or obfuscatory. There's only one front page, and it's full of outcry over the police. There's...
No, I'm saying that the only modern example you've provided so far of state control over the direction of psychological research is China (and even th...
I agree with you in principle here, but in practice there are a limited number of narratives and we each have a limited bandwidth. We cannot talk abou...
And yet, despite repeated requests you've given not one shred of evidence to demonstrate that this actually happens (outside of your fevered imaginati...
I'm not sure about a department, but did you read the quote I gave Fishfry to their particular rant (about the APA covering up psychologist's involvem...
Possibly, but I think it would need more government support to do something like that, membership is still not mandatory. As a token gesture though, I...
This is all very possible, but it being theoretically possible is not the same as it actually happening in reality. I won't repeat what I've just writ...
I don't really see any evidence of that. The gap between rich and poor is larger than it's ever been, there's more people in modern slavery than there...
But it doesn't. It bases its treatments on a need to medicate extreme hyperactivity (in the case of ADHD). We could argue whether a need ever exists e...
Firstly, I love a good statue toppling as much as the next anarcho-syndicalist, so I agree with much of what you say, but I have a few caveats, mostly...
I agree. Which is why, right at the very first mention of this whole issue I sought to clarify if we were talking about psychiatriy or psychology as a...
My point was more that the lack of will/awareness is not isolated from the focus on the police, the statues, the latest celebrity advocate... It is di...
It's really weird that I always get this kind of response when I mention these issues. You're quite happy to get people to fund and suffer the upheava...
Indeed it was, as was true of basically every other institution at the time. Philosophy too had its time when it perpetuated old structures. Which dir...
I didn't criticise it. Pull them all down for all I care. I'm criticising the scope such reification gives for people to ignore the real problem in fa...
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