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    It is not the case that Idealist and anti-realist philosophies of science are morally suspect, not merely intellectually mistaken.

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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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    • 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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