You comment: "Eh. [...] the broad outlines of positivism are widely accepted by scientists and engineers."
The article says just that:
> Logical positivism has been killed many times over by philosophers. But no matter how many stakes are driven through its heart, it arises unbidden in the minds of scientists.
You claim "the article hardly explains how reason has been defeated."
The article mentions Kuhn's and Bohr's anti-rationalism (which together with Feyerabend's anti-epistemology was surely influential for the postmodernism of Focault, Derrida, etc.), and traces it back to Kant.
> the anti-rationalism sprouting from Kuhn. For Kuhn’s legacy lives on, not in philosophy (where he is widely derided for his excesses) but in other parts of academia and in popular culture.
> As appropriated and mangled by Bohr and Kuhn, Kant—despite his own embrace of science and reason—becomes the agent of the anti-Enlightenment, the post-truth Age of Spin and Branding we live in.
The article says just that:
> Logical positivism has been killed many times over by philosophers. But no matter how many stakes are driven through its heart, it arises unbidden in the minds of scientists.
You claim "the article hardly explains how reason has been defeated."
The article mentions Kuhn's and Bohr's anti-rationalism (which together with Feyerabend's anti-epistemology was surely influential for the postmodernism of Focault, Derrida, etc.), and traces it back to Kant.
> the anti-rationalism sprouting from Kuhn. For Kuhn’s legacy lives on, not in philosophy (where he is widely derided for his excesses) but in other parts of academia and in popular culture.
> As appropriated and mangled by Bohr and Kuhn, Kant—despite his own embrace of science and reason—becomes the agent of the anti-Enlightenment, the post-truth Age of Spin and Branding we live in.