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Things like total epistemological freedom always end up being a euphemism for chasing fashions.
by commandlinefan 3y ago
Things like total epistemological freedom always end up being a euphemism for chasing fashions.
- barryrandall 3y agoI always took it as a warning that you're about to be asked to make a gigantic leap of faith.
- dmvdoug 3y agoTo be fair, it’s not like the traditional academic social sciences need much excuse to chase fashions as it is. If anything, that very tendency might be what gets computational social science’s foot in the door. “Hey, we’re the hot new thing!” (That they can leverage the ML/AI hype to generate grants will be the main thing, of course, that secures their place.)