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    Idealist and anti-realist philosophies of science are morally suspect, not merely intellectually mistaken.

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    • 1.Epistemic humility before a mind-independent reality is a constitutive virtue of honest inquiry, not merely a methodological preference.
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    • 2.Anti-realist frameworks that treat nature as a construct of human categories systematically cultivate intellectual arrogance by making the knower the measure of all things.
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    • 3.Cultivating intellectual arrogance as a cognitive habit corrupts moral character, since Aristotelian virtue theory holds that intellectual and moral virtues are mutually reinforcing.
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    • 1.Russell's conception of the good life requires that love and knowledge be directed at genuinely external objects, not projections of the self.
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    • 2.Instrumentalist philosophies of science, as Peirce warned, train practitioners to evaluate claims solely by human utility, displacing disinterested wonder with self-referential pragmatism.
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    • 3.A habit of collapsing the distinction between what is true and what is useful to us constitutes a form of epistemic self-deception that Kant identified as incompatible with respect for rational nature.
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    • 1.The ethical ideal of impersonal self-enlargement requires genuine access to the Other.
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    • 2.Idealist and instrumentalist philosophies reduce the vast forces of nature to human experience or predictive devices.
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    • 3.Reducing the Other to human experience or utility denies the self access to the Other.
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    Before going on to discuss Russell’s meta-ethic in more detail, it is worth pausing for a moment to consider his ideal. For although Russell claimed to make his “practical moral judgments” on a “roughly hedonistic basis” (RoE: 165–6/Papers 11: 311), he was far from being an out-and out hedonist. He was, as we have seen, a utilitarian of sorts, who believed that the right thing to do is the action that, on the available evidence, seems likely to produce the best balance of good over evil conseque
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