Mizrahi, Moti (2017) What’s so bad about Scientism? [Preprint]
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In their attempt to defend philosophy from accusations of uselessness made by prominent scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, some philosophers respond with the charge of “scientism.” This charge makes endorsing a scientistic stance a mistake by definition. For this reason, it begs the question against these critics of philosophy, or anyone who is inclined to endorse a scientistic stance, and turns the scientism debate into a verbal dispute. In this paper, I propose a different definition of scientism, and thus a new way of looking at the scientism debate. Those philosophers who seek to defend philosophy against accusations of uselessness would do philosophy a much better service, I submit, if they were to engage with the definition of scientism put forth in this paper, rather than simply make it analytic that scientism is a mistake.
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| Keywords: | inference to the best explanation; epistemological scientism; scientistic stance; success of science | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Data General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Rhetoric of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Moti Mizrahi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2017 16:51 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2017 16:51 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12896 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Data General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Rhetoric of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 10 March 2017 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12896 |
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