RE: Is philosophy dead?
January 9, 2016 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2016 at 10:47 am by bennyboy.)
I think when scientists talk about philosophy being dead, it means they don't want to bother with philosophical challenges to science which are outside their domain. Or, to be blunt, they do not want to accept that anything IS outside the domain of science, though many things very clearly are.
There are, to them, three kinds of questions: those which are scientific in nature, those which through redefinition of terms can be pretended to be scientific in nature, and those which are stupid questions not worth asking or answering. You know-- things like why there is existence rather than a lack of it, or what beauty is, or goodness, or even life. Things like how we should best live out our short lives. Useless shit like that.
There are, to them, three kinds of questions: those which are scientific in nature, those which through redefinition of terms can be pretended to be scientific in nature, and those which are stupid questions not worth asking or answering. You know-- things like why there is existence rather than a lack of it, or what beauty is, or goodness, or even life. Things like how we should best live out our short lives. Useless shit like that.
