I think the reason is understandable, at least in my opinion. And should we say by today's rhetoric: anti-science.What do you mean by this? I'm wondering as that fact stood out the most for me during the film. There's obviously some reason to do so. — Question
???I still can't see the dichotomy yet ssu, who's the one portraying ignorance and the anti-science establishment, the teachers or Matthew McConaughey? — Question
Even the former proponents of logical positivism admitted that they threw in the towel, and that LP has largely gone the way of the dodo. I understand that it is still on the curriculum in many philosophy departments, but so too no doubt is the cosmological musings of the pre-Socratics. That doesn't mean that anyone still believes it.'Logical positivism' is associated with a book called Language Truth and Logic, published in 1936 by A J Ayer, and still on the curriculum in many philosophy departments. — Wayfarer
Solaris (2002, which I think is a very good remake of the Soviet original). — jkop
This scene from "Interstellar" sums up well of the social critique in the film — ssu
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. — Bertrand Russell
Primer — Luke
they are not "philosophical" in the sense of having some intellectual puzzle or dislocation at the center of their narrative; more like spiritual and even mystical. — SophistiCat
Has anybody mentioned Ingmar Bergman's films? — ssu
If you are into "mind-trip" movies, I would add Being John Malkovich and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — SophistiCat
2001 : A Space Odyssey, would be my first pick due to being all cozy with logical positivism, which simply became replaced with scientism. — Question
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