.@sapinker Philosophy is not useless per se, but as an academic discipline, it appears to be broken, lacking tools and fruitful paradigms
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@sapinker Lack of rigor, lack of consensus: you get mutually exclusive answers to core questions, from respectable, "authoritative" sources.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Thank you so much for sharing my interview with Rebecca. I really appreciate it!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker because articles like that one use the same tired defenses of philosophy as theologians, just using word substitution. -
@davidgaliel@sapinker Philosophy -- all kinds, eg, social, political, moral -- illuminates & orders good human thinking & decision making. -
@donnaleenardo I'll take an effective vaccine over a grand philosophy any day. -
@davidgaliel It's profitable for humans to have both philosophy and science at their avail. One explains and helps articulate the other. :D -
@donnaleenardo "Profitable" is an odd choice of words. How does philo "help articulate" science? What does that even mean? -
@davidgaliel I am no Marxist but I just read this & it relates to my view http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/ch01-s04.html … - 1 more reply
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@sapinker it seems to be mostly caused by pseudo philosophy. People think that getting lost in semantics equals philosophical reasoning.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Why think when you don't have to… Rely on instruments, not realizing those instruments rely on instrumental hypotheses.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker [Science] relies on philosophy to render its own claims coherent. Does it? I'd say science relies on logic. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker Philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, sociology, public speaking........Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I'm an atheist & I've studied philosophy my entire life.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Is atheism dogmatic as any other religion?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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