tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post114122871066050299..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: The Great Philosophaster of ScienceDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1141300519610932592006-03-02T11:55:00.000+00:002006-03-02T11:55:00.000+00:00Mr Campbell, This simple trick is one that drives ...Mr Campbell, <BR/>This simple trick is one that drives me up the wall more than any other. I am interested to hear that someone has come up with a name for it. I thought of calling the true-but-trivial interpretation "bolt-hole banality". <BR/><BR/>Mr Duff, <BR/>In recognition of this new spirit of "anything goes" in the philosophy of science, David Stove came to call it "The Jazz Age in the Philosophy of Science".Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1141291695915736792006-03-02T09:28:00.000+00:002006-03-02T09:28:00.000+00:00“[t]here is only one principle that can be defende...“[t]here is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: Anything goes”<BR/><BR/>Cole Porter said it all before, and much better, too:<BR/><BR/>"In olden days a glimpse of stocking/ Was looked on as something shocking/ Now, heaven knows/ Anything goes."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-1141291167680432362006-03-02T09:19:00.000+00:002006-03-02T09:19:00.000+00:00Feyerabend is often guilty of what Nicholas Shacke...Feyerabend is often guilty of what Nicholas Shackel calls the "motte-and-bailey", where your claim has an exciting-but-false interpretation, which grabs the attention of the undergrads, and a true-but-trivial interpretation, which you retreat to when attacked by more discerning minds.<BR/><BR/>(Nicholas Shackel, 'The Vacuity of Postmodern Methodology', Metaphilosophy 36 (3), April 2005, pp. 295-320.)Blithering Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116081985963847583noreply@blogger.com