/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Positivism is and Analytic Philosophy is a pox upon society.
It treats “facts” as axioms of incontrovertible truth that exist in isolation from one another and their historical contexts. Moreover, it presumes that phenomena exist in static, invariable categories. Finally, it fails to recognize the difference between form and content.

It’s why you have all these polyps and redditoids composing infographics and source-heavy, but insight poor effort posts and using them like props, all the while failing to ask themselves two VERY important questions: “how was this information gathered?” and “So what?”

>>401019
>“how was this information gathered?”
I think proponents of positivism would say, via "empirical research".
Anyway, does the modern scientific community even subscribe to this "positivism" spouted by the analyticals? It seems only redditors do that

>>401047
Not really my wheelhouse here but looking at it from a distance way over in the humanities department, I fear there is a lot of overlap between le epic chungus Redditor infographics telling people conservative social views are a mental illness and what the research that is actually getting published.

The social sciences are a joke. They are 100% ideology at this point.

>>401060
>Not really my wheelhouse here but looking at it from a distance way over in the humanities department
Depends. If you are studying philosophy, then maybe this thread is your wheelhouse
>The social sciences are a joke. They are 100% ideology at this point
I saw some anon the other day, that stated, the reason for the replication crisis in the social sciences is because of poor funding and not because the social sciences are built on inherently unfertile ground

Tbh, the actual undergrad philosophy of science classes can be pretty decent, even in the broadly analytic school.

A lot of controversies and problems are usually exposed if the university program is good. Hume and the problem of induction, problems in running regressions, time or location dependent definitions, tge issue of world of discourse and paradigms, etc.

The problem exists more outside of philosophy in that the physical & social sciences that often have a very crude positivist philosophical outlook.

>>402881
>The problem exists more outside of philosophy in that the physical & social sciences that often have a very crude positivist philosophical outlook
Is that true though? I thought that logical positivism has been discredited all through academia

>>402884

How to describe it… Its like it lingers on in a zombie like state. The views sort of held spontaneously even though it is pretty much reject by most schools of philosophical thought in one respect or another.