TL;DR: a summary thread on this monster of a paper ...
The basic take-home message is this: there is no knowledge without a knower. No "view from nowhere." But this does not lead to relativism - anything goes - either, as our perspectives arise from interactions with a reality that is beyond our control.
This is the best a limited being can hope for in a large world, where relevant cues are sparse, ambiguous, and often misleading.
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Let me summarize the rest, section by section ... 👇
We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart:
"Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings"
https://zenodo.org/records/18293424
Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt to translate his key ideas into a format that every scientist can understand.
Artwork by Marcus Neustetter.
Reading this paper will change the way you do science, and how you see the world, forever. I promise.
#philosophy #science #perspectivism
