On 20 Sep 2013, at 11:46, chris peck wrote:
Hi Bruno
Im not all that wrapped by Popper's method possibly because I have a
background in the soft sciences where I think it is much harder to
devise falsifiable statements. Other minds being unobservable and
all that...
I like Popper's critiques of other thinkers. His destruction of
Hegel in 'Open Society' is brutal and convincing and his analysis of
Marx tempered, fair and exhaustive.
Hmm... OK. I agree even on his critics on Plato, but Plato remains
correct on the main things, and this he failed to see (for reason I
get when reading his philosophy of mind and of matter).
I like that he favours doubt over certainty and argues for that as a
socially organising principle. I dont like that he puts science (as
he defines it) on a pedestal. Funny that he is known for his take on
science. His politics is more important I think.
I read that you didn't like Feyerabend which I found odd given how
your system challenges modern dogma so heavily.
Hmm .... I feel myself as being more like conservative. A platonist
conservative, even a Pythagorean one, thanks to Church thesis.
I dont think any other method would leap so readily to defend its
right to be brought into the scientific fold and I often read you
complaining of current dogmas.
I truly complain on *all* dogma. I complain that some scientist have
dogma when they pretend they not. I am really only an (applied)
logician, and all what I give is a reasoning showing that IF we are
digitalizable machine, THEN physicalism is wrong. I have heard about
some flaws in the argument, but when I ask them I get silence or non
valid argument using assumptions that I do not use.
Many scientists, who have never really thought on the mind-body
problem, seems to believe that science has decided between Aristotle
and Plato, on the nature of reality, but this is pure non sense. We
are much more ignorant than what they imagine.
I would have thought him to be a choice thinker for this list
generally.
It seems leading to some relativism, and he is not enough Popperian
for me.
Best,
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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