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What philosophy do scientists have?

Anonymous Sat 19 Dec 19:20:05 2020 No.12484656 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Dec 2020 19:22:11 No.12484663 Report

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>>12484656
epistemology?
can you phrase your question a little better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Dec 2020 19:35:31 No.12484721 Report

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>>12484656
The one that is taught to them generally. So if you want to know if something is true, you make an experiment and decide in advance the conditions that will validate your hypothesis or not.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 01:51:15 No.12486068 Report

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>>12484663
Which sub of epistemology?

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 02:03:02 No.12486089 Report

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They have rational materialism which is hopeless and vacuous bs

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 02:06:53 No.12486102 Report

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>>12486089
nuff said

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 02:08:50 No.12486104 Report

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"Big butts get coconuts." - Me December 19th, 2020

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 02:35:56 No.12486169 Report

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>>12484656
Natural philosophy is what science used to be called.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 02:48:27 No.12486189 Report

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they are too focused on getting funding to have time for much else, philosophy included.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 03:01:26 No.12486212 Report

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most physicists seem to be instrumentalists

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 04:03:32 No.12486337 Report

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>>12484656
Machiavellianism

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 04:37:44 No.12486459 Report

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Clueless scientists have naive empiricism, More informed ones cite popper or Kuhn, Modern philosophers have no clue

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Anonymous Sun 20 Dec 2020 22:17:20 No.12489455 Report

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Constructive empiricism or bust.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 00:53:04 No.12489937 Report

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>>12489455
Anymore images like this

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Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 04:06:19 No.12490423 Report

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>>12489455
More images like this pls

Thanks anon, you are the best

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Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 07:41:01 No.12490902 Report

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>>12484721
why there's peer review, nice try though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 07:47:12 No.12490914 Report

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Christianity

Thales

Thales Mon 21 Dec 2020 07:48:51 No.12490919 Report

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Cope-ology

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 18:50:28 No.12492572 Report

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>>12490919
Kek

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Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 19:21:01 No.12492702 Report

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>>12484656
Platonic idealism
Monism
Physicalism

I think these 3 (or a variant) are the default for most scientists, even though they may not know it or understand the implications.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 19:24:30 No.12492719 Report

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>>12484656
stoicism
t.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Dec 2020 19:27:58 No.12492733 Report

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>>12484656
I read somewhere that most scientists are realists. Ontic structural realism seems to be quite popular in the physical sciences. See https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/quantum-field-theory/#OSR.

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