@minzlicht I find all of this very disturbing I would be open to different possible views about what we should do, but as a community, we need to find a different response to this from the one we have been employing thus far

@Decety The book is in the tweet right before the one you are responding to. It is called “Talk: The Science of Conversation”

RT @GreggDCaruso: Interesting new study. Finding: main "predictor of moral responsibility attributions was participants’ retributive desire…

@clairebergey Thank you! This is super helpful

Here is a helpful discussion of the scientific fraud

@CovaFlorian @roy_schulman @eschwitz Ha! Maybe that’s the whole explanation…

@roy_schulman @eschwitz Exactly!! You are getting at the exact puzzle that motivated my original post. These disciplines were looking similar, but then… most of them headed toward catastrophic collapse, while philosophy did not. What explains this striking difference in trajectory?

@roy_schulman These are great points on your part, thanks Here is a graph from @eschwitz that makes possible a more direct apples-to-apples comparison

@roy_schulman And here’s some data about philosophy

@stricklandbrent @rbnmckenna86 By contrast, the characteristics of, say, mechanical engineering might make a lot of students choose it as a major while almost no one chooses to just take a one-off class in it as an enjoyable digression from what they’re really supposed to be studying

@novelli_claudio For example, it could be that (a) philosophy was always closer to the sciences than these other disciplines were and that (b) the world has moved over time in a direction such that connection with the sciences is now considerably more important for many jobs

@stricklandbrent But @Tyler_A_Harper has argued that the causal arrow could be going in the opposite direction Perhaps what happens is more like: students became less interested in poetry, and this causes poetry scholars to start connecting their work to political issues

@parella_anthony Perhaps what you mean is that even though university history departments are collapsing, people still care deeply about historical questions If so, I completely agree, and that is certainly an important fact too