{"id":7967,"date":"2014-05-08T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/on-the-scientism-front\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:06:50","slug":"on-the-scientism-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/on-the-scientism-front\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Scientism Front"},"content":{"rendered":"

We defenders of the humanities need to do battle on three fronts against three enemies: scientism, leftism, Islamism.  Each is represented by a disturbing number of crapweasels, individuals who won't own up to who and what they are.  Thus prominent scientisticists<\/em> — to give an ugly name to an ugly bunch — will deny that there there is any such thing as scientism.  (See my Scientism<\/a> category for documentation.)  And the same goes, mutatis mutandis<\/em>, for the Pee Cee crowd and the Islamists. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are two links so that you may know your enemies. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Nagel and Stephen C. Myer's Signature in the Cell <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Why Neil de Grasse Tyson is a Philistine<\/a><\/span> (HTs: Dave Lull, J. Orsak, W. Chambers, et al.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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We defenders of the humanities need to do battle on three fronts against three enemies: scientism, leftism, Islamism.  Each is represented by a disturbing number of crapweasels, individuals who won't own up to who and what they are.  Thus prominent scientisticists — to give an ugly name to an ugly bunch — will deny that … Continue reading “On the Scientism Front”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}