I think the confusion is because it is not clear form that section of the post if you are saying 1)”you don’t need to do all of these things” or 2) “you don’t need to do any of these things”.
Because I think 1 goes without saying, I assumed you were saying 2. Also 2 probably is true in rare cases, but this is not backed up by your examples.
But if 1 don’t go without saying, then this means that a lot of “doing science” is cargo-culting? Which is sort of what you are saying when you talk about cached methodologies.
So why would smart, curious, truth-seeking individuals use cached methodologies? Do I do this?
Some self-reflection: I did some of this as a PhD student, because I was new, and it was a way to hit the ground running. So, I did some science using the method my supervisor told me to use, while simultaneously working to understand the reason behind this method. I did spend less time that I would have wanted to understand all the assumptions of the sub-sub field of physics I was working in, because of the pressure to keep publishing and because I got carried away by various fun math I could do if i just accepted these assumptions. After my PhD I felt that if I was going to stay in Physics, I wanted to take year or two for just learning, to actually understand Loop Quantum Gravit, and all the other competing theories, but that’s not how academia works unfortunately, which is one of the reasons I left.
I think that the fundament of good Epistemic is to not have competing incentives.
I think we agreement.
I think the confusion is because it is not clear form that section of the post if you are saying
1)”you don’t need to do all of these things”
or
2) “you don’t need to do any of these things”.
Because I think 1 goes without saying, I assumed you were saying 2. Also 2 probably is true in rare cases, but this is not backed up by your examples.
But if 1 don’t go without saying, then this means that a lot of “doing science” is cargo-culting? Which is sort of what you are saying when you talk about cached methodologies.
So why would smart, curious, truth-seeking individuals use cached methodologies? Do I do this?
Some self-reflection: I did some of this as a PhD student, because I was new, and it was a way to hit the ground running. So, I did some science using the method my supervisor told me to use, while simultaneously working to understand the reason behind this method. I did spend less time that I would have wanted to understand all the assumptions of the sub-sub field of physics I was working in, because of the pressure to keep publishing and because I got carried away by various fun math I could do if i just accepted these assumptions. After my PhD I felt that if I was going to stay in Physics, I wanted to take year or two for just learning, to actually understand Loop Quantum Gravit, and all the other competing theories, but that’s not how academia works unfortunately, which is one of the reasons I left.
I think that the fundament of good Epistemic is to not have competing incentives.