Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Ethics of Predictive Power in the Natural Sciences
The reason we cleave the world conceptually into categories is to get something like predictive power. There isn't that much of an ethical dimension if we're positing different theories of fundamental physical particles, he says. "I could imagine there being a tension between what makes sense in terms of predictive power and what makes sense ethically"
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