Is there any value to a philosophy department at universities or it is intellectual "underwater basket weaving"?
@OrdQuelu Sure, buddy, if you *technicalize* the "I was just joking!" defense, that'll totally help.
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@chaosprime obfuscation can work wonders & he has a degree in it. -
@OrdQuelu Yes. And him having written a book about why you shouldn't do that. Don't throw all philosophy in the bin because of him, though. -
@chaosprime I don't. He's a symptom. Too much philosophy seems in the tradition or Duns Scotis. It ignores reality for what sounds good. -
@OrdQuelu Well, an enormous chunk of it is ethics, which is about constructing reality, not naturalistic reality. So that's kinda natural. -
@chaosprime true, but it also has a tendency toward paternalism or ignoring underlying assumptions when it comes to ethics. -
@OrdQuelu Yeah, definitely. The largely-modern drive toward clarifying arguments is a reaction to that treatment of assumptions, I think. -
@chaosprime it has a long way to go before it can prove itself more than a relic of a bygone day. Not as bad as ego-psych though. -
@OrdQuelu If focused study of ethics and how knowledge works has become obsolete, we're in even more trouble than I thought. - 1 more reply
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