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Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge

Thing in itself

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Why don't we give scientists credit and proportion to the amount of effort they put in? Michael Struthers: It's like you get the glory for making the discovery and everyone else who was trying and didn't get there. We talked about how X-minority frameworks develop in science and some of the social structures and motivational structures behind science. This was really, really a fun dive into something machinery of how science works.

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