I’m not sure how to distinguish between the Empiricism tag and the Philosophy of Science tag. Anyone have a strong sense of what goes it one vs the other?
My sense is that Empiricism is specifically about experimentation and making beliefs pay rent in anticipated experiences, while a lot of the posts in Science are about academia and the social institutions of science.
There’s some overlap between them. Additionally, Empiricism overlaps with Anticipated Experiences and Science overlaps with Replication Crisis.
Empiricism was added more recently. I went back and tagged some of the posts in Science as Empiricism.
I guess slightly new question: is Empiricism a strict subset of Philosophy of Science? Is there an example of an Empiricism post that isn’t in Philosophy of Science?
Hey, i added Empiricism. It seemed fitting as it is a frequent topic on LessWrong (surprise surprise :), it’s more specific than Philosophy of science (which currently has 63 posts), and is also named as one of the virtues of rationality.
I’m not sure how to distinguish between the Empiricism tag and the Philosophy of Science tag. Anyone have a strong sense of what goes it one vs the other?
My sense is that Empiricism is specifically about experimentation and making beliefs pay rent in anticipated experiences, while a lot of the posts in Science are about academia and the social institutions of science.
There’s some overlap between them. Additionally, Empiricism overlaps with Anticipated Experiences and Science overlaps with Replication Crisis.
Empiricism was added more recently. I went back and tagged some of the posts in Science as Empiricism.
I agree with this; I wouldn’t expect Empiricism to have posts like e.g. Is Science Slowing Down? or Ed Boyden on the State of Science.
I guess slightly new question: is Empiricism a strict subset of Philosophy of Science? Is there an example of an Empiricism post that isn’t in Philosophy of Science?
Maybe the “practical” side of empiricism.
Hey, i added Empiricism. It seemed fitting as it is a frequent topic on LessWrong (surprise surprise :), it’s more specific than Philosophy of science (which currently has 63 posts), and is also named as one of the virtues of rationality.