Scientism is a term generally used to describe the facile application of science in unwarranted situations not amenable to application of the scientific method.
In philosophy of science, the term "scientism" frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism[1][2] and has been used by social scientists such as Friedrich Hayek,[3] philosophers of science such as Karl Popper,[4] and philosophers such as Hilary Putnam[5] and Tzvetan Todorov[6] to describe (for example) the dogmatic endorsement of scientific methodology and the reduction of all knowledge to only that which is measured or confirmatory.[7]
Jaxon Cook
i think it's real but 99% of the time people mention it just as a weak excuse to justify their blatantly anti-science political or religious views
Eli Ramirez
Kinda See: Unit 731
Connor Reyes
Yea, but most of them are insecure academics and redditors. Science/math education is still shit, and a lot of people missuse the term as said. So it exists, but I don't see it as a problem.
Mason Garcia
It's garbage terminology. There is no such thing as "scientism" and science doesn't equal popper's analytical reductionism.
science at the moment is it's infantile analytical stage, but "scientism" is a moronic term mostly used by religious idiots. the terms idealism and materialism would be far more precise for their "critique" of modern science
Kayden Moore
An adept of physicalism is called a _____ An adept of essentialism is called an _____ An adept of intuitionism is called an _____ An adept of finitism is called a _____ An adept of platonism is called a _____ An adept of Islamism is called an _____ An adept of Buddhism is called a _____ An adept of terrorism is called a _____
An adept of scientism is called a _____
Jace Carter
>Scientism is a term generally used to describe the facile application of science in unwarranted situations not amenable to application of the scientific method. Out of curiosity, can you point to some examples of that happening?
Connor Cruz
The march "for science" meme.
Lucas Reyes
>Is scientism a real thing? No. 'science' is not monolithic, or philosophically and methodologically singular. Meaning that many things can come under 'science', 'many things' meaning that there is no such thing as nonscientific and scientific explanation for something in the reality at large. If you have an actual explanation, then it's scientific. Nonscientific explanations don't exist, given the broadness of 'science' in actual practice and not philosophical fuckery, all explanations come under 'science'.
David Flores
>can you point to some examples of that happening? Talking to the average person.
It also happens frequently in politics, where leaders of *any* political stripe spout memes some random science journalist, who doesn't understand what he is talking about, wrote, but it is used because it fits the political agenda of the politician.
