HeyJaredAmerican Ideas Have Consequences
A series on the history of American political thought. The ideas, the reasoning, the implementation, and the consequences for American government and society.
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Chesterton and Alasdair MacIntyre (opens the original)
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Heretics, or the Confusion of Contemporary PhilosophyIn the early twentieth century, an English journalist by the name of G.K. Chesterton wrote three extended essays, Heretics, Orthodoxy, and What’s Wrong with the World, that comprised his critique of contemporary philosophies and politics and a defense of his own philosophic foundation and political conclusions. Heretics is Chesterton’s analysis of the contemporary philosophical milieu. He is crit
Ontology and Epistemology in a Self-Undermining Philosophy of Science (opens the original)
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From physics and cosmology, a different story of science emerges to contradict and supplant the philosophies of science espoused by Kuhn, Popper, and Feyerabend. The project of science, in the estimation of Werner Heisenberg and Roger Penrose challenges fundamental claims of Kuhn, Popper, and Feyerabend. Indeed, Heisenberg dispels Kuhn’s theory of revolutionary change and puts forth a much clearer idea of a paradigm. Penrose offers a three-worlds theory more logical and understandable than Poppe
Ontology and Epistemology in a Self-Undermining Philosophy of Science (opens the original)
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Though Karl Popper rejects Kuhn’s description of scientific revolutions in favor of his own philosophy of science, the two agree in a basic respect: they both advance a conception of science as a discipline that serves the means to human-chosen ends. Clearly, Popper rejects Kuhn’s paradigmism.[1] In the place of normal science and revolutionary change, Popper puts forth a variant of critical rationalism based on strict falsificationism. There will be no sacred paradigms in Popperian science. Ind
Ontology and Epistemology in a Self-Undermining Philosophy of Science (opens the original)
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Since the latter half of the twentieth century, political science has sought a philosophy of science to bring it closer in accordance with the physical, “hard” sciences and while still accounting for the “softer” phenomena which the discipline studies.1 In this pursuit, political scientists have adopted and adapted the thoughts of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, especially. The curiosity in this is that their philosophies of science share a fundamental core of subjective humanism. I call it pridefu
Lyndon Johnson Told Jokes about Stolen Elections (opens the original)
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From Robert A. Caro’s Means of Ascent, Knopf, 1990, pp. 399-400“As Lyndon Johnson told the story…” ‘My father was in town last Saturday, and he did not come to see me,’ Manuel replied. ‘But, Manuel, your father has been dead for ten years.’Manuel just sobbed louder. ‘Si, he has been dead for ten years. But he came to town last Saturday to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and he did not come to see me.’ …“The impression he [Johnson] conveyed was of a man who not only was unashamed of what he had done [st
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