RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
February 26, 2022 at 10:57 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2022 at 11:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A poor analogy. Chemists may have abandoned alchemy, but they haven't abandoned logical principles. You noted yourself earlier in thread that scientists are doing philosophy, and perhaps doing it even better than philosophers of old.
I think you're on to something there. It seems to me that to be a good philosopher today, you might want to have a solid background in whatever science applies to your subject of focus - and that's been the direction that contemporary philosophy has gone. I don't know if you can do science absent some philosophy, and you may actually be able to do philosophy absent any science, but, if you could, you'd probably be doing it wrong - if for no other reason than a disparity in the production of sound (or potentially sound) premises.
I think you're on to something there. It seems to me that to be a good philosopher today, you might want to have a solid background in whatever science applies to your subject of focus - and that's been the direction that contemporary philosophy has gone. I don't know if you can do science absent some philosophy, and you may actually be able to do philosophy absent any science, but, if you could, you'd probably be doing it wrong - if for no other reason than a disparity in the production of sound (or potentially sound) premises.
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