Philosophy is often mocked by people in tech. But I like philosophy. Everything of value I've ever done falls squarely under the label "philosophy". Philosophy is potent, actionable, and practical like nothing else.
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What's going on here is that there are two senses of "philosophy." The first is: what philosophy professors teach and write about. This is widely mocked, not just in tech. The second is (roughly): the most general truths. These are useful.
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So in effect you're switching the meaning of the word "philosophy" in the middle of your tweet. That explains the paradox of people in tech mocking something that is "potent, actionable, and practical like nothing else."
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Coincidentally, this kind of word laundering, in which a single word with two meanings is used as a conceptual Trojan horse, is a big failure mode in the academic world of philosophy.
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The teachers also teach the second kind. Like software or businesses not every foundation yields results, but it’d be a shame to think our modern idea of the general truths didn’t come out of the practice of experimental philosophy.
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We’ll need to bring in the internet philosopher
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This is quite insightful, now after giving enough thought, there is still one paradox. How we will differentiate theological philosophy and general truth kind of philosophy, the line is so blurred.
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Philosophy without theology is pure and dry mental speculation. Theology without phylosophy is fanatism or sentimentalism. Both are required.
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I don't think you know much philosophy, or you wouldn't make such sweeping claims.
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True. Philosophy dealing with logic is actually the root of computing. Cloude Shannon was inspired to create electrical circuits by taking philosophy class and accidentally learnt about George Boole’s The Laws of Thought. C. Dixon articulated this athttps://cdixon.org/2017/02/20/aristotle-computer …
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Maybe you should realise that your mocking of philosophy is exactly the reason why your house of cards is going down the drain now...
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techs now are far more interested in finding and using tools than in having a deeper grasp of the tool's significance. for ex, that deeper grasp may require thinking beyond the knowledge you've acquired of the tool into a larger context of how that tool fits into/changes society.
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