Frederick KOH

I am not sure fascist is the word to use. But there is a kind of brutality in the traditions of the Abrahamic religions. I have read William Lane Crai...

No they don't. Fascist and communists openly organize in liberal democracies. The existing laws and civics are protection enough.

It has to do with DNA testing trumping over all other ways of determining biological maternity - examples given in original post.

I was thinking more of the sort that gets into books and articles (and this forum).

Then you have misunderstood the point. Would they concede that it trumps all other tests/determiners of biological maternity - I gave examples - that ...

That's exactly what I am asking. When whoever it is criticises scientists for being reductionists, what do they mean? I gave a concrete example deriva...

The Essays of Montaigne.

There's a name for that sort of thing.

Food for thought. How do Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Jews treat co-religionists who leave their religion?

You want to read accounts where the balance of power is reversed. Bouveresse has written accounts of what it was like to be an analytic philosopher in...

What about vague blanket criticism of analytic philosophy?

How would works like "The Two Dogmas of Empiricism" or "Naming and Necessity" be rewritten if their authors weren't blind in the way that you say?

This is true even of Mother Teresa. That scientists get special attention for this from post-modernists is very interesting.

What sort of powers was Frege blind to in his work?

Here's why he did it in his own words: "What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."

Dolphins are better at it.

Better is not the word to use for things like philosophy and art. Mozart's music was created and appreciated by a civilization that had never heard of...

It beggars belief that this sort of thing is worth so much ink poured. People do what they do. Nature is the way it is. They have to intersect. Duh,,,...

Thank you.

What war funded Maxwell's research that got us his equations on electromagnetism?

What about the world of mathematics and the hard sciences? The dialectic may be rhetorical but the physical world does what it wants.

There are also constraints imposed by the material world. In activities closely tied to the material world like counting, we find a lot less variation...

In the sense of things like paternity tests. Scientific theories themselves are never proven. The greatest honours go to scientists who overthrow the ...

No excuses for you free-thinking heathens now: "Automating Godel’s Ontological Proof of God’s Existence ¨ with Higher-order Automated Theorem Provers"...

Feel free to attack the reductionism chapter in the 'Dreams" book too. I will defend both.

Could you show me where I dismissed Ramberg's piece. I am not optimistic about debating you given your tactics.

I picked the text. You fire the first salvo.

Challenge accepted. I propose as reference his Reductionism Redux collected in Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries

You forgot the gratuitous name dropping.

From this sentence of yours alone, I am very sure you have no idea what they are.

I was referring specifically to the Bouveresse v Rorty debate....

I feel your pain. They will say something like to make the same point as

My eyes glaze over when I see claims like this, these critiques, when unpacked and compared with the exact words actually said by the target, usually ...

Actually I brought up Bouveresse v Rorty earlier in the thread - also in the volume. This debate is more "classical" in terms what you would expect in...

So you have real targets instead of carricatures. But I am dissapointed Steven Weinberg is not on your list. I suggest you fight him instead of shadow...

Wrong. It is a sign of a successful discipline when expansion and specialization occur. Some shut up and calculate, others work on the philosophy of q...

They? Most don't care.

Banalities don't need to be dodged.

In the generation that included Bohr and Heisenberg and many more. You are contradicting reality.

When something is banal , its the banal and not the a fortiori that people notice.

And I was responding to your claim that

Put in such general terms, it is true to the point of banality.

Why should reductionists bother entomologists more than - say - nudists?

It doesn't bother entomologists. It is possible for some of them to never utter or write the word "quark" throughout their entire professional life. O...

So, some scientists do this and others do that. Those who do this tend to be older than those who do that. Got it.

What was this broad agreement (if there was one) like in 1000AD (or 1000CE if you like)? Significance indeed.

The last time things became degenerative, physicists rushed to the new paradigm.

I am very sure ornithologists agree with chemists and physicists about what birds are made out of.

It would be more accurate to say that most are apathetic to philosophy and too indifferent to care about whether what they do is scientism or reductio...

As long as we don't call all of it (the interpretation) "philosophy", which was my original point.