Scientism

A series of posts on “scientism” and the nature of science.

Outlining Scientism

• Basics of scientism: the web of knowledge

• What does “science” in “scientism” mean?
  

• Defending scientism: mathematics is a part of science

• The roots of empiricism: Hume’s fork, and the divide between knowledge “by observation” and “by reason”

• The unity of maths and physics revisited

• Tools of science: Induction and Occam’s razor

• A scientific response to the Brain in a Vat

• Scientism and questions science cannot answer

Criticisms of scientism

• Massimo Pigliucci’s critique of New Atheism and scientism

• A scientism defence of Logical Positivism

• On Wieseltier on Pinker: How to misunderstand scientism in one easy step

• Nagel’s bat doesn’t demonstrate incompleteness in materialist science

The nature and scope of science

• What does “existence” mean?

• Disagreeing (partially) with Sean Carroll about what is science

Morality and Free Will as a part of science

• Science can answer morality questions

• Six reasons why objective morality is nonsense

• There is nothing wrong with morality being subjective!

• Lacking “free will” does not negate moral responsibility

• Why Jerry Coyne is barking up the wrong tree on moral responsibility and free will

• On Richard Carrier’s argument for objective morals

• Richard Carrier’s argument for objective morals — redux