science & technology have saved us...I'd love to hear how philosophy could contribute to that. — TaySan
Saved us from doom scenarios like the Spanish Flu and the Bubonic Plague. Compared to those, the amounts of death and suffering have been minimal. — TaySan
As a previous poster noted, you just heard it from your own mouth(keyboard), since all scientific theories are elaborations of philosophical systems.science & technology have saved us. I'd love to hear how philosophy could contribute to that. — TaySan
And yes, I'd love to hear how philosophy could contribute to that. — TaySan
And science is applied philosophy. — T Clark
All the advances of the industrial revolution, a direct outcome of advances in philosophy — Count Timothy von Icarus
Life is like a boulder perched over the edge. Philosophy is kind of like gravity and science is like the person who pushes the rock over the edge and claims all the credit — Outlander
Do you still think number of fatalities from Covid is 'minimal' compared to the Spanish Flu.? — Joshs
Do you still think number of fatalities from Covid is 'minimal' compared to the Spanish Flu.? — Joshs
To my knowledge, the Spanish flu was less contagious, but don't quote me on that, not sure. — Paul S
The vast majority of mortalities from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 are from people with comorbidities, and the elderly, so the numbers are almost entirely unknown. — Paul S
By definition, scientific theories are based on evidence. And what counts as evidence is based on a pre-existing framework defining what counts as evidence. And this paradigmatic framework is of the order of a philosophical system.Simply because a lot theories are based on evidence. — TaySan
And if there are other things that science isn't the right way to do, or that science isn't even in the business of doing -- e.g. a lot of our problems are social, essentially ethical ones, not questions of what is or how to do something, but of what should be or why to do something -- then philosophy can contribute in that respect by arguing successfully for whatever the right way to do that is. — Pfhorrest
which accusation exactly are you referring to? — TaySan
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