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Single Idea 11054

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism ]

Full Idea

Scientism says that the exact sciences are the leading sources of knowledge about the world.

Gist of Idea

Scientism says most knowledge comes from the exact sciences

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 1.2)

Book Ref

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.9

A Reaction

I almost agree, but I would describe the exact sciences as the chief 'evidence' for our knowledge, with the chief 'source' being our own ability to make coherent sense of the evidence. Exact sciences rest on mathematics.

The 28 ideas from Robert Hanna

11045 Most psychologists are now cognitivists [Hanna]
11047 Hegelian holistic rationality is the capacity to seek coherence [Hanna]
11048 Humean Instrumental rationality is the capacity to seek contingent truths [Hanna]
11046 Kantian principled rationality is recognition of a priori universal truths [Hanna]
11053 Explanatory reduction is stronger than ontological reduction [Hanna]
11051 Frege's logical approach dominates the analytical tradition [Hanna]
11055 Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection [Hanna]
11054 Scientism says most knowledge comes from the exact sciences [Hanna]
11058 Logic is explanatorily and ontologically dependent on rational animals [Hanna]
11059 Circular arguments are formally valid, though informally inadmissible [Hanna]
11061 Intensional consequence is based on the content of the concepts [Hanna]
11063 Logicism struggles because there is no decent theory of analyticity [Hanna]
11067 Rational animals have a normative concept of necessity [Hanna]
11068 One tradition says talking is the essence of rationality; the other says the essence is logic [Hanna]
11070 'Denying the antecedent' fallacy: φ→ψ, ¬φ, so ¬ψ [Hanna]
11071 'Affirming the consequent' fallacy: φ→ψ, ψ, so φ [Hanna]
11072 Logic is personal and variable, but it has a universal core [Hanna]
11078 Intuition is only outside the 'space of reasons' if all reasons are inferential [Hanna]
11077 Intuition includes apriority, clarity, modality, authority, fallibility and no inferences [Hanna]
11080 Intuition is more like memory, imagination or understanding, than like perception [Hanna]
11081 Imagination grasps abstracta, generates images, and has its own correctness conditions [Hanna]
11082 Should we take the 'depictivist' or the 'descriptivist/propositionalist' view of mental imagery? [Hanna]
11084 Logical necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds, because of laws and concepts [Hanna]
11086 Metaphysical necessity can be 'weak' (same as logical) and 'strong' (based on essences) [Hanna]
11085 Nomological necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds with our laws [Hanna]
11083 A sentence is necessary if it is true in a set of worlds, and nonfalse in the other worlds [Hanna]
11088 We can list at least fourteen informal fallacies [Hanna]
11089 Formally, composition and division fallacies occur in mereology [Hanna]