Scientific Dishonesty

[Gilrandir]

Philosophy could be said to have reached a temporary impasse, much as medical science did up until germ theory and refinements in other fields.

Philosophy never left that impasse.

Any science is developing by way of changing paradigms. A paradigm consists of a problem/question scientists confront, a hypothesis (a preliminary answer to this question) and the verification of the hypothesis (encompassing data and methods) which brings some results. The paradigm changes when either the question or the hypothesis changes. For example, in astronomy the first hypothesis was that the sun circles the earth, later it was changed into the modern one (the earth circles the sun).

Now philosophy from the very outset posed one question (what is primary - the mind or the matter) and offered two evident preliminary answers which have been in the state of verification ever since, yielding no results. Generations of philosophers joined this or that point of view being unable to prove it with their opponents being unable to prove the opposite. So it it is not a temporary impasse, it is embalmed lethargy or fossilization. Pick one to your liking.