Do you think putting extra effort into learning about existing empirical work while doing conceptual work would be sufficient for good conceptual work or do you think people need to be producing empirical work themselves to really make progress conceptually?
The former can be sufficient—e.g. there are good theoretical researchers who have never done empirical work themselves.
In hindsight I think “close conjunction” was too strong—it’s more about picking up the ontologies and key insights from empirical work, which can be possible without following it very closely.
Do you think putting extra effort into learning about existing empirical work while doing conceptual work would be sufficient for good conceptual work or do you think people need to be producing empirical work themselves to really make progress conceptually?
The former can be sufficient—e.g. there are good theoretical researchers who have never done empirical work themselves.
In hindsight I think “close conjunction” was too strong—it’s more about picking up the ontologies and key insights from empirical work, which can be possible without following it very closely.