For example, moral philosophy has been trashed by everyone who spoke to me about it so far.
Have you never dealt with people who aren’t moral realists before?
And the way I think Popperian goals are better is that they value explanations which help us understand the world instead of being instrumentalist, positivist, anti-philosophical, or anything like that.
You are going to have to expand on this. I’m still confused by what you mean by anti-philosophical. I also don’t see why “instrumentalist” is a negative. The Bayesian doesn’t have a problem with trying to understand the world: the way they measure that understanding is how well they can predict things. And Bayesianism is not the same as positivist by most definitions of that term, so how are you defining an approach as positivist and why do you consider that to be a bad thing?
Have you never dealt with people who aren’t moral realists before?
You are going to have to expand on this. I’m still confused by what you mean by anti-philosophical. I also don’t see why “instrumentalist” is a negative. The Bayesian doesn’t have a problem with trying to understand the world: the way they measure that understanding is how well they can predict things. And Bayesianism is not the same as positivist by most definitions of that term, so how are you defining an approach as positivist and why do you consider that to be a bad thing?