Jack comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 23 March 2011 07:49:46PM 1 point [-]

To some degree. It might be more precise to say that many AI programs in general are a computational update to Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1937).

But logical empiricism as a movement is basically dead, while what I've called Quinean naturalism is still a major force.

Comment author: Jack 23 March 2011 08:20:19PM 1 point [-]

I'd actually say the central shared features that you're identifying- the dissolving of the philosophical paradox instead of reifying it as well as the centrality of observation and science goes back to Hume.