The Dirty Little Secret of Philosophy

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This is sort of a dirty little secret of philosophy that so much of it is driven by things you want to be the case. Maybe that's a virtue I don't even know but it's certainly when I think of moral philosophy that often. Well I mean client it maybe even a epistemology. Some philosophers more or less just think and that's the game right. The game is you come in with the things you're really committed to like and you have to and the world will no doubt still present you with puzzles right.

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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