Be Human

"It's funny that the "politics of common sense" entails the fetishization of social science data and the failure to put it in anything like the proper context. It is unsurprising that unphilosophical people worship "science" and abuse it to meet their own ends. This is a dominant theme in all kinds of contemporary arguments on left and right. The human sciences cry out for serious consideration of the influences of culture and history in addition to the "scientific" "measurement" of people's capacities."

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