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What's the point of philosophy any more?
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
(March 27, 2018 at 10:33 am)Khemikal Wrote: Seems legit.  What's an example of the set being compared against her example, though?  Let's posit she's in a set with others we'll call "the good ones™".  Who's in the other set?

OK yeah just come across an example. At risk of derailing the thread ... Nick fucking Bostrum. Although I wasn't even thinking of him as a philosopher to be honest, more a futurist (read someone who looks at pop science and creates hype about it to garner interest and makes themselves look important at the expense of everyone else putting in the hard graft and making genuine progress. Some scientists do this as well instead of actual science. A pox upon them all).

Although I wouldn't want to use this as an example of why philosophy as a field is redundant, because as you are all going to point out, he is actually asking the right philosophical questions. He's just making a balls-up of it. But it does serve as an example of why philosophers need to know the subject that they are talking about and the best way to get this knowledge is through experience.

Thanks to ignoramus for the link:

https://atheistforums.org/thread-54108-p...pid1724881
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RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Sal - March 20, 2018 at 7:33 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 4:36 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by tjakey - March 20, 2018 at 9:40 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 12:33 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 4:32 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 22, 2018 at 12:30 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 24, 2018 at 10:31 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Angrboda - March 25, 2018 at 12:52 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 28, 2018 at 10:24 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Shell B - March 25, 2018 at 5:05 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by I_am_not_mafia - March 28, 2018 at 3:03 am

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