Most scientists haven’t read Popper and those people in history of science that analyze what scientists actually do, don’t find that scientists follow Popper’s maxims.
I agree that for psychologists and many people in biology there isn’t enough explicit attention paid to epistemology. On the other hand it’s still import to be aware that you will never get 100% explicit.
I don’t see what is your criterium to agree with my point on a given field.
Also, my point isn’t about “100% explicit”. My point is that if a field of study is interesting enough, defining an epistemy becomes primary. Else, too much time will be wasted. Similarly, in some existing fields, an epistemy that is too implicit / loosely specified leads to noise production at best, and to counter-productive efforts at worst.
Considering the opportunity cost of having very smart people working on useless things, this is bad.
It seems I haven’t fully understood your criticism of what you perceive to be bayesianism.
Indeed, I think I was too brief and that it could have been an article in itself. I might write one if you are interested. If you aren’t, basically : bayesianism as the core of an approach to the world is too losely specified. It isn’t a complete epistemy, nor even a complete logic.
On the article you sent, the author tried to find uses of bayesianism. However, substituting religion for bayesianism leads to the same epistemic problems : “I did that, that and that because of religion. And religion even proves some bits of rationalist common sense !”
There’s little attempt to falsify most core positions. Most core positions aren’t falsifiable. Physicists generally don’t reject their belief in string theory because a particular experiment didn’t produce the results they hoped for.
In Evidence-Based Medicine, nobody cares about falsifying the core tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine. The paper that proposes the term Evidence-Based Medicine doesn’t discuss the Rand study.
The project of writing the DSM-V didn’t include running experiments to try to falsify the DSM.
The Wikipedia article towards which you linked doesn’t point to a single instance where someone tried to falsify Popper’s theory unsuccessfully.
It isn’t a complete epistemy, nor even a complete logic.
What do you mean with “complete” if you don’t mean “100% explicit”?
As far as I know, this is still subject of debates. cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
I don’t see what is your criterium to agree with my point on a given field. Also, my point isn’t about “100% explicit”. My point is that if a field of study is interesting enough, defining an epistemy becomes primary. Else, too much time will be wasted. Similarly, in some existing fields, an epistemy that is too implicit / loosely specified leads to noise production at best, and to counter-productive efforts at worst.
Considering the opportunity cost of having very smart people working on useless things, this is bad.
Indeed, I think I was too brief and that it could have been an article in itself. I might write one if you are interested. If you aren’t, basically : bayesianism as the core of an approach to the world is too losely specified. It isn’t a complete epistemy, nor even a complete logic.
On the article you sent, the author tried to find uses of bayesianism. However, substituting religion for bayesianism leads to the same epistemic problems : “I did that, that and that because of religion. And religion even proves some bits of rationalist common sense !”
There’s little attempt to falsify most core positions. Most core positions aren’t falsifiable. Physicists generally don’t reject their belief in string theory because a particular experiment didn’t produce the results they hoped for.
In Evidence-Based Medicine, nobody cares about falsifying the core tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine. The paper that proposes the term Evidence-Based Medicine doesn’t discuss the Rand study.
The project of writing the DSM-V didn’t include running experiments to try to falsify the DSM.
The Wikipedia article towards which you linked doesn’t point to a single instance where someone tried to falsify Popper’s theory unsuccessfully.
What do you mean with “complete” if you don’t mean “100% explicit”?