(January 18, 2019 at 10:26 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: What methods do philosophers employ to determine if the ideas they explore are warranted?
I guess the best we can do is discuss and debate. Good-faith dialogue.
Quote:Are they typically informed of the latest science in the areas in which they speculate?
Probably it depends on what questions they're working on. Some issues benefit from the input of science, and some aren't related much.
Philosophy and science have always worked dialectically. Or, depending on where you want to draw the boundary lines, we can agree with bennyboy that science is a subset of philosophy. It's the part of philosophy which demands, a priori, methodological naturalism, and accepts only empirical repeatable inter-subjective quantifiable evidence. Questions about reality which can't be answered within those limits aren't science, but may interest philosophers.
