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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...
June 12, 2020 at 15:44
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 ...
June 12, 2020 at 15:28
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...
June 12, 2020 at 13:40
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...
June 12, 2020 at 12:42
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...
June 12, 2020 at 12:27
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 ...
June 12, 2020 at 10:49
So animals have an ability to reason and navigate that is not grounded in their ability to discern meaning? Is that your claim?
June 12, 2020 at 09:22
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...
June 12, 2020 at 09:02
Again, not a metaphysical question. This claim is either meaningless or amenable to empirical evidence. Is our ability to reason and navigate grounded...
June 12, 2020 at 08:25
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...
June 12, 2020 at 08:03
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...
June 12, 2020 at 07:27
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...
June 12, 2020 at 07:04
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 ...
June 11, 2020 at 17:25
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...
June 11, 2020 at 13:35
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...
June 11, 2020 at 12:35
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...
June 11, 2020 at 12:13
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 ...
June 10, 2020 at 16:20
I'm not getting the link here. How does the government's cackhanded attempt to make degrees into quantifiable commodities actually make any difference...
June 10, 2020 at 13:50
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 ...
June 10, 2020 at 13:22
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...
June 10, 2020 at 07:03
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...
June 10, 2020 at 05:35
"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...
June 09, 2020 at 18:23
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...
June 09, 2020 at 17:09
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...
June 09, 2020 at 16:08
They don't have an emoji of someone nodding with resigned assent and an ice pick in their head, just imagine one for me!
June 09, 2020 at 15:55
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...
June 09, 2020 at 13:31
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...
June 09, 2020 at 13:22
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...
June 09, 2020 at 12:49
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...
June 09, 2020 at 12:31
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...
June 09, 2020 at 11:03
Yes, that's exactly what I'm claiming. There's no evidence that the state significantly dictates the direction of psychological research in countries ...
June 09, 2020 at 10:45
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 ...
June 09, 2020 at 10:29
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...
June 09, 2020 at 09:57
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...
June 09, 2020 at 09:45
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 ...
June 09, 2020 at 09:29
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...
June 09, 2020 at 09:04
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...
June 09, 2020 at 08:41
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...
June 09, 2020 at 08:37
And yet, despite repeated requests you've given not one shred of evidence to demonstrate that this actually happens (outside of your fevered imaginati...
June 09, 2020 at 07:15
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...
June 09, 2020 at 06:05
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...
June 08, 2020 at 19:35
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...
June 08, 2020 at 17:39
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...
June 08, 2020 at 17:26
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...
June 08, 2020 at 13:47
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...
June 08, 2020 at 13:09
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...
June 08, 2020 at 12:04
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...
June 08, 2020 at 11:33
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...
June 08, 2020 at 11:14
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...
June 08, 2020 at 10:59
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...
June 08, 2020 at 10:42