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@"Isaac" - It's a lost cause. Tim will just go on redefining the question, moving the goal posts as they say. Now we don't have to show that psycholog...

Nice metaphor. I won't upvote it because you're clearly already paying someone off to do that. And sometimes people are actually funny on purpose.

Thank you for this. Your post has made a better case for psychology being a science than my last 10 posts in this discussion have. I've downloaded Haa...

What you've written may provide a case that some psychology is bad science, but provides no evidence at all that psychology as a discipline is not a s...

If I remember correctly, this is the source that brought the phrase "girly man" to public notice, at least in the US. First use at about one minute in...

You aren't "using military tactics - liquidate high value targets." As Ying noted:

Please elucidate.

Name one geological, or ecological, or paleontological, or evolutionary biology theory that matches up to what you call a "scientific theory."

Maybe some do, but most don't. Most recognize that much of psychology is an observational science like geology or evolutionary biology, i.e. primarily...

Again, this shows your ignorance of science, even "hard" science like physics. Many, most, of the important properties in physics are statistical. Onc...

This is complete bullwinkle. So, you say that if a subject is difficult to study, it can't be science. That just shows your lack of understanding of s...

Now, now. You're getting all excited again.

Yes, it is blind prejudice. On thing I've noticed - when people criticize the softness of psychology, I point out that what was called cognitive psych...

This is really pitiful.

You forgot to note that you should never, never, never order the mashed potatoes.

You're responding to a post I made to Yohan. Did you read my previous post to you where I discussed that? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/co...

Psychology is science, observational science. Although you are overstating the case, there is some truth in what you've written.

How do you know they are female squirrels from the pictures shown?

You wrote previously. The sciences I listed do not generally have "replicable results from experiments" any more than psychology does. These are calle...

Back when Nickolas Cage was wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VONiDwmHROA

Do you consider geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, ecology, astronomy, and oceanography to be sciences?

I don't know what OECD or ECP mean.

A full page of posts about different types of squirrels and how they rank and now branching out into rodents in general. This is exactly the type of t...

Now we're doodling around with language. It doesn't matter what the diploma says. It matters what people actually do. To be fair, I think the confusio...

Applied science is another phrase meaning "engineering." Engineering is in no way science. Again, that's science. Engineering is not science. Hitting ...

Oh, SLX, you're just so cute. I want to pinch your cheek.

In the DC area, they have black squirrels. https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-1_1251.png You white supremacists make me ...

The problems with applied psychology have nothing to do with whether or not psychology is a science. There are problems with applied physics that have...

I haven't read the article yet, but I will. I worry less about metaphorical catastrophes than I do about real ones.

@"tim wood" and I get along pretty well, philosophically, except when we don't. He has some pretty strong... opinions that always get me started - his...

Mine is easy to tell. Loud, raucous, argumentative, and really, really smart.

I don't know if that would work or not. One thing I like about the universal basic income approach is it cuts out all the frim fram - just write a bun...

See my previous response.

I think an absolute truth is a proposition that is true in all possible circumstances, for all possible observers, in all possible times and locations...

I've been trying to decide whether I should try to make a comprehensive case for psychology as a scientific discipline. I'd considered doing that in t...

I'm not sure if I understand the question. When I was a psych major many (many, many, many) years ago, the classes I liked the best were in cognitive ...

There are those who would say that Freud was that person, including Freud. A lot of people would laugh at that. I think there's a case to be made thou...

And that's one of the reasons so much of the philosophy of ethics is baloney. I've said this before - psychology is not psychotherapy. Psychology is t...

I think Tim has fallen victim to the No True Scottish Psychologist fallacy.

Not to be too cute, but if I refute the existence of an absolute, objective reality, does that mean my understanding is absolute and objective?

Since we've been on the subject of American television, do you know the source of that song?

There are two issues. First - I believe that for a society to be good, everyone, must have ready access to decent working conditions, a decent place t...

I will gather rhetorical support wherever I can.

Hey...I never wrote that! I'll let Ralph provide my rebuttal: Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due...

But I think that's where you and I are at loggerheads. For me, yes, it's funny because of the specifics, but I find it moving because of what is more ...

Sorry. I was being a bit of a jerk. As Emerson wrote, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds and bad comedians.

I'm not responsible for your unblinking prejudice against Americans and men. I don't see the controversy in saying that men are subject to social expe...

Maybe you don't feel that way, but that doesn't mean my observations aren't valid. I made a broad generalization about people I have experience with. ...

Thanks..

The soul was generally the purview of religion. It certainly wasn't ignored. Ethics and morals are heavily influenced by psychological factors, and th...