What can the philosopher offer ? — plaque flag
Brain storming/imagineering/musing/rumination! which is unrestricted by any notion of 'can't go there because.....'
Such, can cause thoughts in scientists that that they would otherwise, never have thought of. — universeness
I make the structuralist point that, call it what you will, we engage as human beings in some analogue of fundamental ontology, albeit more or less seriously in terms of openness to criticism — plaque flag
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly
The Goal.The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Dutiful, taking pains, loving, hoping not to get run down today by a man in a hurry. — unenlightened
Historically, some professional philosophers have been known to pontificate : to speak from authority, but in complex abstruse esoteric language. That's why my indirect & superficial introduction to Postmodern philosophy sounded more like legalistic Sophistry, than Socrates faux humility "know nothing" set-up.The philosopher is mostly a dunce in the eyes of a world “assured of certain certainties.” — plaque flag
The physicist is a wizard who summons nuclear fire, perhaps to destroy cities, perhaps to save the world with cheap energy. The biologist tweaks the code of life, perhaps to summon pandemics, perhaps to end aging forever.
What can the philosopher offer ? — plaque flag
Exemplary daily exorcisms of foolery (re: meta-ignorance (i.e. agnotologies (e.g. pseudo-discourses, sophistries)); expectations misaligned with reality (i.e. self-immiseration, alienation, dukkha); maladaptive habits of mind (e.g. mis/ab-uses of communication, judgment, knowledge), etc) aka "spiritual exercises".What can the philosopher offer ? — plaque flag
What can the philosopher offer ? — plaque flag
What criteria have to be already in place in order for scientific criticism to be intelligible within any given community of researchers? And what sort of discipline is best suited to question and replace these criteria within which normative questions of truth and falsity, and correctness of method, gain purchase? — Joshs
https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/apel-karl-otto-1922Apel's strong thesis is that his transcendental semiotics yields a set of normative conditions and validity claims presupposed in any critical discussion or rational argumentation. Central among these is the presupposition that a participant in a genuine argument is at the same time a member of a counterfactual, ideal communication community that is in principle equally open to all speakers and that excludes all force except the force of the better argument. Any claim to intersubjectively valid knowledge (scientific or moral-practical) implicitly acknowledges this ideal communication community as a metainstitution of rational argumentation, to be its ultimate source of justification (1980).
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
— Bill Shankly
Philosophy is football with the universe as the ball, and everyman the referee. — unenlightened
:up:Yesterday, upon the stair,
A hurried man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away... — jgill
some professional philosophers have been known to pontificate : to speak from authority, — Gnomon
complex abstruse esoteric language — Gnomon
wouldn't it be the case that many people think philosophers have annihilated human values, unleashing relativism, hopelessness and nihilism? — Tom Storm
I think we both agree that they have simply assumed a flawed ontology. It's crucial that science looks around any particular human subject. It's absurd to radicalize or misunderstand the first genuine necessity and (pretend one can) look around human subjectivity altogether.you sometimes see ‘scientists puzzled over why consciousness exists’, — Quixodian
But being philosophical might help smooth out the bumps in life. — jgill
The teaching of the sciences embodies the appropriate philosophical ideas for those subjects. — jgill
Exemplary daily exorcisms of foolery (re: meta-ignorance (i.e. agnotologies (e.g. pseudo-discourses, sophistries)); expectations misaligned with reality (i.e. self-immiseration, alienation, dukkha); maladaptive habits of mind (e.g. mis/ab-uses of communication, judgment, knowledge), etc) aka "spiritual exercises". — 180 Proof
I very much think that a mathematician or physicist or biologist can do genuine 'ontological' work themselves — plaque flag
Whatever reality is, reality necessarily excludes – negates – unreality (i.e. ontological impossibles (e.g. un-condittionals, un-changeables, reified ideas ('ideals'), etc)).What isthisreality ? — plaque flag
It's better they are unaware that's what they're doing. :roll: — jgill
Whatever reality is, reality necessarily excludes – negates – unreality (i.e. ontological impossibles (e.g. un-condittionals, un-changeables, reified ideas ('ideals'), etc)). — 180 Proof
Physics necessarily leads to metaphysics. Philosophy can't be avoided. — RogueAI
Bearing in mind we all routinely do things that would have been thought ‘excluded from reality’ by our forbears. — Quixodian
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