(July 14, 2016 at 12:51 pm)Alex K Wrote: Ok, so my cynical impression is that scientism seems to be butthurt contemporary philosophers and woo peddlers fearing for their relevance. It all smells like an elaborate way of whining about science being mean to their cherished beliefs. Meh.
Long gone are the days of Hume, it seems.
The above definition also kind of begs the question, saying that scientism is when science as a source of knowledge is emphasized too much.
I think that it is more about people who want to push science where it doesn't belong (category error).
Begging the question requires an argument, definitions by their nature of defining something; I do find tend to beg the question if that is what you mean.
