(March 27, 2016 at 1:26 am)Mudhammam Wrote:(March 26, 2016 at 9:17 pm)abaris Wrote: Why would I? Even if they weren't dead. I never subscribed to their ideas anyway.Research is great...
I subsrcibe to research when it comes to morality, since I find that much more fascinating than any idea any philosopher ever had.
...When you understand what the data means.
Of course, making sense of the data is what philosophers do, and scientists too, even when they're ignorant of the fact that they're doing-- or disingenuously pretending that they're not doing -- philosophy.
That's right. Any system of analysis requires a philosophical foundation to carry any merit. Science has as its foundation some very powerful assumptions, but these also serve to limit its scope to those areas of reality in which those assumptions can be known (or reasonably expected) to apply.