Yet, there's lots of scientists in public forums like this, who embrace logical
positivism. I am not saying this is a good thing, but something I have
experienced.
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From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>
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Sent: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?
On 9/7/2013 12:40 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
That's right. I´m not joking if i say that the thing that discredited
philosophers definitively was relativity, quantum mechanics and their
realization: the atomic bomb. That is the event that raised physicalism, a
branch of logical positivism and analytical philosophy, and discredited
any other way of thinking.
If by "physicalism" you mean the meta- of physics, then it's not
positivism. Positivism hasn't been considered a good meta-physics since
Mach. Too many unobservable things: atoms, photons, quarks, virtual
particles,... turned out to make good empirical models.
Brent
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