Re: my data is bigger
Posted by
Roger Frye-4 on
Sep 28, 2020; 2:50pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/my-data-is-bigger-tp7598887p7598888.html
The article ends with a damning argument about FRIAM:
On one level, it’s ironic to find a philosopher—a professional talker—arguing that science was born when philosophical talk was exiled to the pub. On another, it makes sense that a philosopher would be attuned to the power of how we talk and argue.
Along the way, cites a war as the reason people started to believe in scientific experiment over idealistic theories and belief. I doubt that it is as simple as this:
Why did the iron rule emerge when it did? Strevens takes us back to the Thirty Years’ War, which concluded with the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648. The war weakened religious loyalties and strengthened national ones. Afterward, he writes, what mattered most “was that you were English or French”; whether you were Anglican or Catholic became “your private concern.” Two regimes arose: in the spiritual realm, the will of God held sway, while in the civic one the decrees of the state were paramount. As Isaac Newton wrote, “The laws of God & the laws of man are to be kept distinct.” These new, “nonoverlapping spheres of obligation,” Strevens argues, were what made it possible to imagine the iron rule. The rule simply proposed the creation of a third sphere: in addition to God and state, there would now be science.
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