Well is there anywhere that focuses on say history of science issues? Even if people don’t get a heavy dose of Bayesianism they can still get a pretty decent background if they get the basic ideas of Popper, Quine and Lakatos for example. And it isn’t like LW really does focus on philosophy in the general sense.
I suspect that more people would benefit not from emphasis on philosophy but on clear thinking. If that’s what we focus on a lot of the general skeptical websites can teach simply by osmosis a lot of the basic good habits. (Yes, I know that’s a claim that a lot of people here seem to disagree with. Part of the issue is that the aims of the skeptical movement are not identical to those of the rationalists).
Well is there anywhere that focuses on say history of science issues? Even if people don’t get a heavy dose of Bayesianism they can still get a pretty decent background if they get the basic ideas of Popper, Quine and Lakatos for example. And it isn’t like LW really does focus on philosophy in the general sense.
I suspect that more people would benefit not from emphasis on philosophy but on clear thinking. If that’s what we focus on a lot of the general skeptical websites can teach simply by osmosis a lot of the basic good habits. (Yes, I know that’s a claim that a lot of people here seem to disagree with. Part of the issue is that the aims of the skeptical movement are not identical to those of the rationalists).