Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Jul 28, 2019; 7:23pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/All-hail-confirmation-bias-tp7593058p7593440.html
While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this foolish, unsubstantiated concept, "the world." What sort of heuristic is THAT?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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From: Friam [mailto:
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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!
I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it!
I TOLEYA!
On 4/24/19 5:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> Our World Isn't Organized into Levels
>
https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail>
>> In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the
>> systematic problems plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize
>> structure we’re imposing on the world, to instead mistake this as
>> structure we are reading off the world. Attachment to the concept of
>> levels of organization has, I think, contributed to underestimation
>> of the complexity and variability of our world, including the
>> significance of causal interaction across scales. This has also
>> inhibited our ability to see limitations to our heuristic and to
>> imagine other contrasting heuristics, heuristics that may bear more
>> in common with what our world turns out to actually be like. Let’s at
>> least entertain the possibility that the invocation of levels can mislead scientific and philosophical investigations more than it informs them. I suggest that the onus is on advocates of levels of organization to demonstrate the well-foundedness and usefulness of this concept.
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