@PhilosophyExp Depends on the 'stuff'. One shouldn't make up empirical claims about how people behave esp. if the claims are weight-bearing.
You see, I can say philosophers make stuff up, coz I'm a sociologist. Of course, sociologists also make stuff up, so there is that. Hmmm.
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@PaulWessels1 Or indeed empirical claims about how they respond to particular moral scenarios... -
@PhilosophyExp True. 60% isn't 'almost all'. You and Unger will presumably agree the interesting q is how the majority argue about things? -
@PaulWessels1 Yes. Unger's arguments aren't undermined by his cavalier attitude towards the question of judgements people actually make.
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@PhilosophyExp My housemate last year (a chem PhD) couldn't understand the method behind philosophy. "Do you just make stuff up?" she asked! -
@NotungSchwert@PhilosophyExp We laymen have trouble understanding why refutation of bad ideas appears ineffectual & how easily they persist -
@skepteaser bad ideas in philosophy? I think it's because it's difficult to provide knockdown arguments against them.
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@NotungSchwert Lot of bad publicity originates from pompous continental philosophy and from PoMo nonsense rising to prominence. -
@skepteaser oh yeah screw that stuff.
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@NotungSchwert Ditto. You can appreciate how that shit gives some merit to the accusation of "making stuff up". -
@skepteaser yes absolutely.
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@skepteaser when I started at uni, the lecturers gave an opening talk where they made clear they were teaching Western analytic philosophy.
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