There have been many great female scientists, novelists, artists, etc. But which female philosophers should replace Plato, Aristotle, Erasmus, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Habermas, or Singer? Serious suggestions welcome.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/03/14/oxford-university-set-feminise-curriculum-requesting-inclusion/ …
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Objective verification of talent is a different phenomenon, trying to pump against the natural high-entropy state. This pumping force is triumphant in math, weaker in science, weaker yet in literature, and absent in religion or continental philosophy.
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Ok, only now getting that you’re focussing on talent verification. Do you think that verification of talent is a useful metric when thinking about what to learn (particularly for ideas that have been around a long time)?
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I'm just framing it that way because of the original question about great female philosophers. If you can't verify greatness then it's little wonder if men win the status game before 1950.
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Makes sense. And this conversation has lead me to wonder about the framing. What is this quality of greatness that we associate with thinkers and philosophers, and why do I care about it? And if ‘greatness’ is a flawed focus, is the gender balance of greatness important?
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Right, and presumably it’s not helped that those things that are objectively verifiable tend to migrate to their own fields once they get a firm enough footing (e.g. science). So we end up with a domain called philosophy which is to some extent a philosophy of the gaps.
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