He claimed that Marxism is pseudoscience because it is unfalsifiable. The example he uses is the original idea that the revolution would originate in developed Western countries and when that didn’t happen Marxists developed a new explanation and apparently that means it’s unfalsifiable and thus wrong.
Of course, inductive reasoning is, you know, a thing. But Western “scientific method” brainworms and their consequences etc etc
Along with vast swaths of fundamental physics. Nobody doing serious philosophy of science is a strict Popperian these days–the Quine-Duhem thesis put the final nail in that coffin 25 years ago.
I think this is mostly a shitpost, because Liam Bright is actually pretty rad. He’s done a bunch of work about how racism and capitalism are inextricably intertwined, and is pretty radical in his positions about philosophy in its current form being basically useless to society, since it doesn’t usually engage with actual social problems.
He claimed that Marxism is pseudoscience because it is unfalsifiable. The example he uses is the original idea that the revolution would originate in developed Western countries and when that didn’t happen Marxists developed a new explanation and apparently that means it’s unfalsifiable and thus wrong.
Of course, inductive reasoning is, you know, a thing. But Western “scientific method” brainworms and their consequences etc etc
Seems like molecular biology is unfalsifiable then
Along with vast swaths of fundamental physics. Nobody doing serious philosophy of science is a strict Popperian these days–the Quine-Duhem thesis put the final nail in that coffin 25 years ago.
I think this is mostly a shitpost, because Liam Bright is actually pretty rad. He’s done a bunch of work about how racism and capitalism are inextricably intertwined, and is pretty radical in his positions about philosophy in its current form being basically useless to society, since it doesn’t usually engage with actual social problems.
Ah, good then