Are there any scientists (broadly defined) who think of themselves as positivists these days? Do you? Itโs common for people criticising, e.g., trialists to accuse them of positivism, but I donโt know of anyone who self-identifies as positivist.
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@andi ๐ though Iโm also a scientist narrowly defined. (Physics)
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@Virginicus oh hello there. Is your reasoning for positivism Mastodon post sized? ๐
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@andi It's very shallow, I'm afraid. Long ago, I was reading a pop-philosophy book that was slagging positivism. The author was mocking principles that I think are useful and well supported by experience. I decided, hmm, I must be a positivist.
I just read the Wikipedia page for anti-positivism to find out what debate you're referring to. The issues raised on that page sound more like "positivist scientists haven't finished the job" than "we need a fundamentally different philosophy". But doubtless there are other issues more subtle than those. I just do what works.
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