The “shaky foundations of reality”

    Scientism, in at least some of its manifestations, is the close cousin or sibling if not indeed altogether the Doppelgänger of the once-fashionable form(s) of philosophy known as logical positivism, logical empiricism, and/or neopositivism.   Very popular, especially in Europe, in the 1920s and 1930s, logical positivism, as I’ll call it here, argued that only […]