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i agree that it's a bit up its own ass but chapman is definitely worth reading on his own, and his writing is in dialogue with contemporary rationalism; his aud

i agree that it's a bit up its own ass but chapman is definitely worth reading on his own, and his writing is in dialogue with contemporary rationalism; his audience is also mostly rat-adjacent (typically labeled or self-identified 'post-rationalist', which also sounds pretty up its own ass, but so does 'rationalism')

dnissley 4y ago
Just to give concrete recommendation re: bayesianism (one kind of what he calls probabilistic rationalism), it specifically might be worth dipping into his metarationality writings here: https://metarationality.com/probabilism-applicability https://metarationality.com/probabilism-applicability