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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The branch of philosophy that examines how science works, what counts as scientific knowledge, and what science can and cannot tell us about reality.
Self-referential Pragmatism(what replaces disinterested wonder in instrumentalist approaches)
A way of thinking where you only care about what benefits you or your own goals, rather than pursuing knowledge because it's true or meaningful in itself.