Are You Being Self-Loathing?

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In the process of building theories you often are forced to do things which are themselves intellectually quite valuable. So some people will say that this activity of kind of elaborating upon and defending one's core commitments is actually in the end intellectually very valuable. If you take that game seriously you'll find it's really difficult and what you have to do to play it well is just a real driver of innovation. I'm not self-loathing at all like someone's gotta love me. Some of my best friends are philosophers I don't want to know. There you go that works.

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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