It is not clear to me what makes a worldview totalizing. Would Newtonian mechanics be a totalizing worldview? If not, is it a worldview? Is any worldview in physics after Newton non-totalizing? (My guess is no.) Is Greek geometry a la Euclid?
No because it’s a physics theory. It is a descriptive theory of physical laws applying to matter and so on. It is not even a theory of how to do science. It is limited to one domain, and not expandable to other domains.
Decision theorists holds that for every sequence of observations and every utility function (set of goals), there is exactly one best move or optimal action (namely, the one that maximizes expected utility conditional on the observations). Does trying to use decision theory as much as possible in one’s life tend to push one into having a totalizing worldview?
Decision theory itself is relatively narrowly scoped, but application of decision theory is broadly scoped, as it could be applied to practically any decision. Executable philosophy and the Sequences include further aspects beyond decision theory.
It is not clear to me what makes a worldview totalizing. Would Newtonian mechanics be a totalizing worldview? If not, is it a worldview? Is any worldview in physics after Newton non-totalizing? (My guess is no.) Is Greek geometry a la Euclid?
No because it’s a physics theory. It is a descriptive theory of physical laws applying to matter and so on. It is not even a theory of how to do science. It is limited to one domain, and not expandable to other domains.
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Decision theorists holds that for every sequence of observations and every utility function (set of goals), there is exactly one best move or optimal action (namely, the one that maximizes expected utility conditional on the observations). Does trying to use decision theory as much as possible in one’s life tend to push one into having a totalizing worldview?
Decision theory itself is relatively narrowly scoped, but application of decision theory is broadly scoped, as it could be applied to practically any decision. Executable philosophy and the Sequences include further aspects beyond decision theory.