Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
Very Bad Wizards
The Rhetoric of Scientific Objectivity Is Starting to Lead to More Dangerous Results
In his essay, rordys argues that the rhetoric of scientific objectivity is starting to lead to more damaging results. He says it has led us to people like b f. Skinner on the one hand, and people like althuser on the other,. both produced by the attempt o be scientific about our moral and political lives. And he wants to sketch out a version of pragmatism that actually is congenial to most of our practices.
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