I can figure out from context that the list is intended to be in decreasing order, but it took me a moment. It might be worth mentioning that explicitly.
I generally support it, though a little realism about the prospects of rationalism's DIY recreate Analytic Philosophy from scratch is healthy. One should have a certain ironic distance about these things.
I can figure out from context that the list is intended to be in decreasing order, but it took me a moment. It might be worth mentioning that explicitly.
This was a nice succinct piece! Do you think this supports having niche communities like LessWrong to develop potentially disruptive paradigms even if they risk ignorance of relevant literature etc.? David Chalmers says something to that effect here: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/5vji57/im_david_chalmers_philosopher_interested_in/de2jklb/?context=1
I generally support it, though a little realism about the prospects of rationalism's DIY recreate Analytic Philosophy from scratch is healthy. One should have a certain ironic distance about these things.
There's another sense in which research is cumulative: where each piece of research builds a collective picture of (some aspect of) the world.
This applies to sociological research quite strongly, for example.