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I don't see a whole lot of conflict between your (1) and (3) (leaving God out of the picture.) Global regularities that 'emerge' could easily be simpl...

No worries. One neologism I coined years ago, which has never been used to my knowledge, is 'spielfest' (although I now learn via quick Google search ...

I know, a bit obscure. Clicks more easily if you say it.

I've now learned to log out of my Google ID for some kinds of searches, so that I don't get ads following me around. LIke, I idly googled 'rental vans...

He's a sheltie cross - looks rather like a sheepdog, but coloured like a labrador. Rescued from his own form of 'dogatory' aged about eight, we've had...

Ah, I see. I was having a bit of difficulty with the connection. Actually I am currently developing documentation for a cloud-based computing services...

My dog has separation anxiety, meaning that when we're getting ready to leave the house, the dog knows this, and begins to bark incessantly. There are...

This might be a bit left-field, but there have been some cases of patients who have had massive brain abnormalities due to some congenital condition o...

It was intended as a thread on this particular neologism, ‘deepfake’, which digressed into a discussion of computer chess (for some reason). But, agre...

You won’t consider any arguments. Lazy Google on Heidegger and Scientism:

No, it’s no distance at all - you’re arguing exactly what I say you are arguing, and if you take it as an insult then it’s your problem. OK - you’re s...

Can’t. But what you’re proposing is simply verificationism. Again you’re basically arguing that all knowledge is empirical and then demanding empirica...

Sorry, I might have reacted rashly, or misunderstood. :worry:

The statement I quoted was this one: Which is plainly an instance of ‘scientism’. At issue is the fact that scientific analysis deals exclusively in w...

Never hard to dog whistle an atheist on this forum. ;-)

At issue is not the formation of theories about objects of perception, but

Because, by saying that ‘science cannot ascertain a basis of values, but nothing else can either’, then you’ve essentially declared in advance that an...

I take it that in your statement ‘theology’ serves as a placeholder for the various forms of philosophy that are not science. Is this not the case?

Here’s the context of the quote mentioned above, which makes Pseudonym’s views on the matter totally clear: So, you said before you wanted some quotes...

Kind of stacks the deck, doesn’t it?

Similar to the way the creationist fundamentalism brings religion into disrepute. Scientism and fundamentalism are in some ways manifestations of a si...

Do you have to drive a stake through its heart first, just to be sure?

Well, that's sure an interesting segue. Actually I have a chess app on my iPhone that I shelled out the $6.49 for, and it's worth every cent (authored...

One can be selective about such things.

All the examples of ‘scientism’ I’ve recently run across have been on this forum, and they’re frankly not worth discussing. Let someone else have a go...

The Coconut Shy Sorry, but I’m out of coconuts. :-)

As for examples - there was useful essay by Steve Pinker called Science is not the Enemy of the Humanities in the New Republic, August 2013. It’s well...

Yes, a source of moral values, a guide to what is important in life, and so on. Basically, it is putting ‘science’ into the role that ‘religion’ used ...

Generally speaking, treating science as a source of values rather than as a method for ascertaining facts.

well, yeah. I don’t have very strong feelings about it but I did remember there had been a thread so thought we might as well all read the closing cre...

Martin Shkreli, 'Pharma Bro', cries in court as he is sentenced to seven years for hedge fund fraud http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-10/martin-shkre...

If your choices are biologically determined, then they’re not really choices. Richard Polt Anything but Human

:grin: I did a unit on A J Ayer as an undergrad which told me everything I need to know about positivism (although I softened my view of Ayer somewhat...

I always had thought that Carnap was 'scientism' incarnate. I am willing to be corrected, though.

I think you are begging the question here. There might be disagreement about what constitutes 'an objective judgement' for many kinds of reasons. But ...

China votes to allow President Xi Jinping to Rule for Life. Wave Tibet Independence flag and go to back of queue for everything :cry:

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Anyone care to venture why Neils Bohr said ‘if you’re not shocked by quantum physics then you haven’t understood it?’? (Note the two question marks. T...

ALso have a look for History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.. Series of podcasts from Kings College London, each about 20 minutes, with guest lecturer...

I don’t see it. The scientific facts behind climate change, and the effectiveness of vaccination for preventing illness, are established beyond reason...

I had read that it wasn’t Neils Bohr that Einstein asked, but his friend Michael Besso on an afternoon stroll in the forests. It was asked with a tone...

To be honest, the impression I get from your posts, is that you have no understanding of philosophy as such. Everything you write is straight out of p...

I guess I’ll just have to live with that, Harry.

Your argument in this thread is the kind of faulty reasoning that the OP is addressing: it is trying to arrive at an explanation of the nature of reas...

A (slightly edited) response I provided in another thread on a similar question is relevant here. So I'm arguing that objectivity as a criterion tends...

Thank you, very kind of you to say so.

Important to note that it is 'realism' in the scientific or modern sense, rather than the 'realism' of scholastic philosophy. There, the subject of re...

That’s pretty well how I see it.

Right - any organism. And that is a biological observation. It is not a justification of reason. Biology has nothing specific to say about that.

I think it depends on the understanding that what the worldly being understands as existence is actually illusory. Because beings wrongly identify wit...