Re: science privilege — fork from acid epistemology

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on Mar 12, 2020; 5:44pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/science-privilege-fork-from-acid-epistemology-tp7594776p7594785.html

I'll venture a comment.  My last position at Carnegie Mellon was as a "Principal Scientist" in the Philosophy Department. My colleagues over the years had developed algorithms for inferring causal models based on observational data.  Didn't someone here recently say that correlation is not causation?  My job was to implement the algorithms and to develop online user interfaces to make them available to practicing scientists.  My colleagues were bonafide philosophers of science.  I think I've already mentioned their book "Causation, Prediction, and Search".  See http://www.phil.cmu.edu/tetrad for details.

Frank

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 11:06 AM <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sorry, Glen.  I didn't mean to imply any kind of argument in the matter.  The comment just interested me, and I thought you might have information to share with me.  It wasn't clear that I could even support the more general proposition, the one I thought you were making, let alone the more specific one that you actually made.

Nick

Nicholas Thompson
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Clark University
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I'm not going to answer because that's irrelevant. The challenge is whether or not conversations like this impact the science done by those who have them.

On 3/12/20 9:56 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
> Ah!  When you say that the benefit of philosophy to science is "straightforward", what do you have in mind?
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