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“The extreme conservative may deprecate any scrutiny of the present order; the ardent radical may be impatient of the critical and seemingly tardy processes of the investigator; but those who have considered well the conquest which man is making of the world of nature cannot forbear the conviction that the cruder method of trial and error and the time-honored method of prejudice and partisan controversy need not longer completely dominate the regulation of the life of society. They hope for a larger application of the scientific method to the problems of human welfare and progress”

--- John Dewey. "Ethics", 1932.


I wonder how we could evaluate the gap between results of using "the scientific method" in natural vs social sciences.
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We start the video with a joke but later he talks about the difference in modes of explanation and gives a nice illustration how a detailed correct explanation subtracts from understanding, rather than adding to it. Relevance is key.



He also talks about the role of machines (i.e. technology) in philosophy:
https://youtu.be/_HmFPdcg6mo?t=3270

"Forced to think about the difference between functionality and concrete implementation."

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