Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
The Joe Walker Podcast
Are You an Empiricist?
Is observation the ultimate source of our knowledge of nature? In other words, are you an empiricist in the philosophical sense? Not in that strict sense, certainly in the sense that you can't do it from the armchair. Ultimately, what we want is an explanation of the world in terms of deeper principles than what we see with our own eyeballs.
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