Jerry Coyne is apparently a logical positivist.

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This is vaguely embarrassing, since logical positivism is a discredited position that is not at all necessary for scientific realism.

 

But from this blog post on Why Evolution is True, it's clear that all the following are believed by Coyne:

Science is based upon verifiable evidence.

Logic, mathematics, and philosophy are not about the external world.

Morality is subjective.

 

This is pretty much classic logical positivism. Proposition 1, about verifi...