<div dir="ltr">The article ends with a damning argument about FRIAM:<div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:TNYAdobeCaslonPro,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:21px">On one level, it\u2019s ironic to find a philosopher\u2014a professional talker\u2014arguing that science was born when philosophical talk was exiled to the pub. On another, it makes sense that a philosopher would be attuned to the power of how we talk and argue.</span> </div></blockquote> </div><div>Along the way, cites a war as the reason people started to believe in scientific experiment over idealistic theories and belief. I doubt that it is as simple as this:<br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:TNYAdobeCaslonPro,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:21px">Why did the iron rule emerge when it did? Strevens takes us back to the Thirty Years\u2019 War, which concluded with the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648. The war weakened religious loyalties and strengthened national ones. Afterward, he writes, what mattered most \u201cwas that you were English or French\u201d; whether you were Anglican or Catholic became \u201cyour private concern.\u201d Two regimes arose: in the spiritual realm, the will of God held sway, while in the civic one the decrees of the state were paramount. As Isaac Newton wrote, \u201cThe laws of God & the laws of man are to be kept distinct.\u201d These new, \u201cnonoverlapping spheres of obligation,\u201d Strevens argues, were what made it possible to imagine the iron rule. The rule simply proposed the creation of a third sphere: in addition to God and state, there would now be science.</span> </div></blockquote> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:53 AM Roger Critchlow <<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org">rec@elf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/how-does-science-really-work" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/how-does-science-really-work</a><br><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div><div><br></div></div>
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