Make money doing the work you believe in
I couldnt diagree with this article any more. Heres my critique:
The scientific method has assumptions about reality
These main assumptions are pre-conditions for doing science i. E mind-independant reality, stable regularities that generalise (induction) and empiricism (observations are connected to the world in a way that allows hypotheses to be checked)
Because these assumptions are pre-conditions for doing science then you can’t validate them through doing science alone without circularity
Therefore to avoid circularity you need an outside discipline to evaluate these assumptions i. E philosophy, particularly metaphysics
In refusing to question these assumptions, to do a priori metaphysics, you fail to put the scientific method itself on non-circular ground and thus reifies these ungrounded assumptions into an ideology - which is the opposite of the pursuit of truth.
