What has philosophy answered for use in the previous 100 years? — TiredThinker
(Re: "philosophical suicide") And we're as good as dead whenever we stop. "The unexamined life is not worth living", is it?We will never stop questioning ourselves. — Gus Lamarch
↪TiredThinker It seems to me that philosophers don't "answer" so much as they raise (unbegged) questions of 'our political, ethical and intellectual givens' (e.g. assumed answers, perennial questions, normative solutions or intractable / underdetermined problems). — 180 Proof
What paradigms have been broken, altered, or introduced by philosophers in that time period? No fair citing physicists or other scientists who have speculated about their subjects, just philosophers known for their contributions, those ideas familiar to the general public. — jgill
For the last 100 years, it's the role of the individual in society.What has philosophy answered for use [sic] in the previous 100 years? — TiredThinker
Contribution to what? Curiously, the list of the great and the good so far on the thread seems to leave out the philosophers of environmentalism, of feminism, of anti colonialism. It is surely not the business of the philosopher to contribute to society but to challenge it. It is not our business to answer to a miserable accountancy that cannot value anything except in terms of convention and complacent compliance. — unenlightened
If philosophy only raises new questions has science answered anything other than by way of discoveries that give philosophers more to ask questions about? — TiredThinker
I cannot think of any concrete contributions philosophy has made to our understanding of Creation/nature. It is interesting but not very useful. Only our faith in the Creator offers us any real hope for the world. IMHO. — Photios
In the main, I don't think so. Science solves problems (re: fact-patterns, phenomenal processes, computations), philosophy questions – with grounds – its own questions as well as the framing of scientific problems (re: aporia, ideas, interpretations, criteria, methods). In this way, it seems to me, 'science and philosophy' complement and may inform / influence one another.If philosophy only raises new questions has science answered anything other than by way of discoveries that give philosophers more to ask questions about? — TiredThinker
Kudos to David Lewis for saying out loud that there is no difference between a possible world and a "really real" world. — litewave
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