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HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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How to Use More Than One Method in Scientific Inquiry

De boys was a kind of all round social scientist. He thought that scientists working on issues broadly relating to race relations should be willing to suspend in their behavior the value free ideal. In practice, when you see him applying this approach very explicitly, he seems to really t say which a majority agree upon. So if you can get that n 's at one point in the philadelphia negro where he runs four methods at once and then says, i'll adopt the conclusions which at least three of them agree on. It's an interesting parallel between some of de boy's defences of democracy as a means of generating the best decisions, and de boy's practice as a scientist in trying to help that

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