#positivist

[haggishlyhagging]

Although Paris had a strong hold on Mary Putnam Jacobi, New York had much to offer, for Manhattan was becoming the nucleus of American intellectual life. It was the center of American literary culture as well as the publishing capital, due in part to George Putnam's contributions in the previous decades. New York was the locale of a growing academic community, led by the expansion of the city's universities. And it was a medical mecca due to its growing hospitals, medical societies, and public health movements after the Civil War. New York City was also becoming a prominent urban center of American women's rights activism, a movement that started in Seneca Falls in 1848. After belonging to such vibrant intellectual circles in Paris, Jacobi sought out like-minded intellectuals and professionals in New York, and did not need to look far.

Shortly after her arrival, Jacobi became involved in the New York Positivist Society, a loose-knit group of the city's intelligentsia dedicated to the ideas of August Comte. At biweekly meetings, middle- and upper-class writers, artists, and professionals met in parlors or lecture rooms to philosophize about the problems that plagued modern industrial society and to construct programs of social reform. These American disciples of Comte focused on two key positivist principles. First, they believed that all knowledge should be based on observable phenomena derived from empirical, scientific investigation. As David G. Croly, head of the New York Positivist Society, put it, "Our faith is ... based upon demonstrated truths, not upon authority or tradition, or mere subjective conceptions, but upon objective realities which can be seen and known of all men." Rejecting the atheist label, positivists insisted, "Our Supreme Being is Humanity, which we affirm is the only God man ever could or ever can know. " Second, they viewed society as an organism that mirrored both the family structure and the human body with its interrelated and interdependent parts. In the positivist view, all members and sectors of society, like all parts of an organism, should work in concert for the broader good. The philosophy translated neatly into middle-class visions of social reform in the post-Civil War era, for positivists believed professionals could eradicate social problems, and a new moral order would emerge where citizens worshipped humanity and directed their spirituality toward social improvement.

-Carla Bittel, Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America.

#carla bittel #Mary Putnam jacobi #positivist #social issues #first wave feminism #women in science

[nicholasr]

Are numbers real?

In the 20th century there was a crisis in mathematics. THere were some rumblings in the 19th century. People tried to prove mathematics and prove arithmetic but they messed up because trying to do it someone (I believe ALan TUring) proved that you couldn't prove all of arithmetic or something because of set theory or something and the set of all sets plus this set and something about a barber in spain and he cuts everyone's hair but who cuts his hair.

But going back over it some American go-getters brought some fresh approaches to the amazing explanatory pwoers of numbers

and all the different isntances of math in the univers.

Planets and ellipses and intermitten cicadas all come out on prime number years 13 and 17 and 11 to be off of other cycles and maybe numbers are real or at least they are quite useful

but perhaps they only seem useful because they are a pure mental constuct. They fit so many great thoughts because they are the purest of the thoughts so maybe they exist. Maybe numbers don't exist. Maybe we can't know if they can

#numbers #fibonacci #prime numbers #positivist #turing #realism #rationality #hume #skeptics #proof #are numbers real

[quetzalpapalotl]

whenever something good happens in this godforsaken country, or any other country in latam, there is always some dipshit saying something about how shamefull it is that the US is losing at progressiveness. I swear to god, people in the global north are so fucking condescendent. You people have not let go of the enlightenment's ideas of progress, as if everyone else is a buch of backwater people taht cannot possibly have complex thoughts about their lives and society.

Argentina has some of the best trans policies in the world, transfeminicide is typified in its law. Transfeminicide is also now typified in Mexico city's law, after the hard efforts of trans women who fought to get this done. The US and many countries in Europe don't even have feminicide typified, which Mexico and many otehr coutnries in Latam ahve had for years. People here organize and figth for their rights despite having to go against the goverment, the police, organized crime and the influence of the global north that actively works to stop progress in the global south for its own interests, often getting killed for it. Did you know Mexico is considered the most dangerous place to be a journalist? And yet people don't stop.

I have sat at meetings with different feminist organizations across Latin America and they are have very profound things to say about these topics in the context of living in wars, under imperialism, with a fragmented identity due to colonization, etc. There is very rich literature on all kinds of social problems that you guys don't know about because it's written in a language you don't speak and your academies have long looked down on. We don't have to learn from you or follow your example, we don't need you.

#us sociology looks down on latin american sociology because the us tends to have a more positivist approach to it #latam's has a way more constructivism approach with very robust literature that often gets ignored even when anglos shift their approach

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[determinate-negation]

an overwhelming majority of Jews inside and outside Israel believe that there should be a State of Israel and that Jews have a right to national self determination - that's what being a Zionist is.

If you can find any opinion polling evidence to the contrary, let us know.

#ive already gone into issues with study methodology please cope you worthless positivist

[fitzrove]

Underused in fanwork: Rudolf experiencing inner conflict re: his deep beliefs in scientific rationality and lack of faith in metaphysics vs. his [redacted] [redacted] bdsm imaginary friend existing, seemingly on a semi-physical level

#man said 'with time science will become the religion of the people because religion is largely quabbling that has outlived its usefulness' #like a rationalist determinist approach: science (and especially positivist natural sciences) will improve the world and humankind #^^ irl that is #and yeah yeah its not in the musical canon but its ok we can put it in as a treat #musicals #theatre #kronprinz rudolf #elisabeth

[transmutationisms]

some of adam raegusa's culinary advice is fine but I almost as soon as I found his videos he started talking about "food as fuel" and "not every meal needs to be mindblowing and sometimes you should eat food that isnt good" and while I don't have time to unpack all that politically and philosophically, I do have to ask why on earth would I or anyone else take cooking advice from someone who thinks food doesn't have to taste good. i dont disagree as a depression meal enjoyer but I'm not sure I am looking for a utilitarian take on eating from a food youtuber, especially one who isnt focused on accessibility. just felt weirdly diet culture/"biohacking"-adjacent. bad vibes.

oh that absolutely is a big thing with lots of people really into lifting / bodybuilding / fitness---v instrumental attitude toward food as a means to a desired body. and i certainly don't begrudge people their own food & body neuroses (hello lol) but i personally don't share the particular muscularity focus that leads a person to eat cauliflower rice and unseasoned tilapia for a week straight djxbxkxbdkd so like, it's not really useful content to me & i don't care to hear a comment in every damn recipe video about how much it is or isn't carb-heavy lmao. like again i absolutely engage w/ my own food neuroses but i don't pretend they're moral stances and i certainly don't recommend them to other people dressed in the language of nutrition science 👍

#v unfortunate when a person's magical thinking collides w/ their positivistic faith in scientificity

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

the sokal affair was fucking hilarious actually and i dont trust anyone who disagrees. if i ever get to TA a course (i dont care what the course is on) im assigning that paper as a reading with no context and the seminar topic will be critical thinking and media literacy

#'he was making fun of the social sciences' this is true. you are forgetting part 2 though which is: we deserved it. #ohhhhh the physicist doesnt think social philosophy contributes to academia.... ohhhh he thinks postmodernism is inherently bad.... #*loud buzzer noise* INCORRECT!! getting butthurt about it proves his point! #if YOU are not YOURSELF writing nonsense gibberish papers then THAT'S GREAT! #but when there is a trend in your field of discourse and language looking like incoherent nonsense #the question of whether that field has a Nonsense Problem is an academically responsible one to ask #frankly i think that designing and carrying out a double-blind trial to test social scientists' bullshit radar was kind of delightful #like. that's the most hilariously positivist approach i can imagine #and it is not even a LITTLE bit his fault that we failed that test. #the truth is that if a physicist can catch us with our pants down that easily we should probably consider investing in some suspenders. #adventures in academia #rhi talks

[37q]

fascinated by individuals who work their way up to deducing biology from phenomena exclusively presented and mediated socially. maybe they lost track of the scientific method

#not to be a positivist but. when you cant even do positivism right i dont need to whip about the pratītyasamutpāda

[identitty-dickruption]

LESS about polarisation MORE about what we lose by acting like the goal of democracy is to find the One True Consensus

#vague posting about the lecture I just sat through #help meeeee save me from these liberal positivists

[khlur]

i got somewhere w my fucking literature review

#can i power thru a whole entire thesis from start to finish in a month??? watch this space #watch me abstract screen 7k papers in 3 days <3 #i think i will give myself a week to code the qual papers i find and then run a thematic analysis #the most straightforward shit i can do to get me a good mark in this overwhelmingly positivist public health uni #idk what to do for the quant arm tho #ig i'll just have to re read prev systematic reviews #it's rly telling that a lot of published articles on my topic literally focus on only one community #and even then it's so.....laden with an upper caste gaze #and i know a systematic review doesn't help #but i'm hoping that being reflexive abt my own experiences + learning frm the experiences of my tribal family members #+ my grey lit reading #will help me sort of bring something to the discussion session that ISN'T superficial and in the trap of 'noble savage' thinking

[fumblingmusings]

I love the idea of Arthur being a member of the Royal Society after his Civil War. He doesn't contribute much in terms of actual discovery, but he loves to sit and make googly eyes at Isaac Newton or Christopher Wren and peer at Samuel Pepys or John Evelyn’s diary entries, chugging whatever hot drink he can get his hands on that decade and thinking about how these mathematicians and physicists' work applies to sailing.

Alasdair does a very similar thing with his Enlightenment circle, being a very avid member of the Poker Club one century later. He's just fascinated by those conversations on empiricism and empathy. He is much more sociological and philosophical than Arthur and his 'hard' sciences. Not too soft, though. I am almost sure Scotland probably punched David Hume in the face once. Or twice. He deserved it.

#hetalia #hws england #hws scotland #headcanon #op #gosh getting flashbacks to empiricist vs positivist discourse and yeah kind of thats arthur and alasdair but also sort of not

[smallfrenchstudyblr]

My toxic trait really is being a legal positivist, uh.

#I WILL NOT BE SHAMED FOR BEING A LEGAL POSITIVIST #brought to you by a tipsy reading of the hart-dworkin debate #lawblr

[fipindustries]

im starting to sense a theme in this manga

#one piece #way more positivist and humanist than i expected

[starshipheartofg-erti]

YOU’RE A POSITIVIST? justify and explain? Xx

my degree is in physical geography

#like idc if you don't *feel* like climate change is happening #and climate change doesn't care either #it's gonna happen anyway #like don't get me wrong for most other things i'd probably say i'm a Marxist? #but the research i do is positivist ig

[girlonthelasttrain]

amulet against Oppenheimer posts finally acquired (my copy of the Italian translation of "Lebens des Galilei" by Bertolt Brecht)

#my italian lit teacher in hs made us read it #as a warning against positivist attitudes about science ig? (I went to a 'techinical' hs) #anyway it's good and I'm going to reread it #reading journal