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Author | Topic: On The Philosophy of, well, Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: She quit. Couldn't abide the bright light of inquiry when it shone upon her own irrational beliefs, as opposed to on others'. She didn't understand that we don't oppose Creationism because we don't like Creationism, per se. We oppose Creationism because it is unscientific, yet its proponents want it to be treated as scientific. Therefore, anything that similarly abuses science will get the same treatment. Truly, I just don't understand how someone can compartmentalize their mind like that. The cognitive dissonance must be incredibly uncomfortable. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I'd just like to point out that the field of Psychology is huge, and contains a range of "hardness", as it were. On one end of the spectrum, you have very soft areas like many of the Social Psych and areas and at the other end, you have Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Believe me, people in the harder branches of Psychology have a fair bit of disdain for some of the mushy stuff that passes for science in the soft areas.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: ROTFLMAO!! Woe to the retail shop owner in a college town who hires philosophy majors. All those I have worked with, to a person, have been PITAs.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: And we can determine when the car goes faster, or if it doesn't.
quote: And we can determine when a carburator becomes more efficient, or if it doesn't.
quote: And we can determine the actions of gases under extreme pressures.
quote: So, how do we know when the philosopher gets the right answer, or has a wrong answer? There is no way to tell. So what's the point of asking unanswerable questions? Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
So what's the point of asking unanswerable questions? quote: You just let me know what you get to the top of that mountain, OK? I won't hold my breath.
quote: Huh. There's a reason very, very, very few people make it all the way to the PhD level of science. That's becasue doing so is the opposite of "too easy".
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Gag.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Wow.
My prejudices are again reinforced. People who are into philosophy tend to be smug and annoying.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yeah. ..and evolution is just a theory.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I don't see why. I think it's just convention, and the "Philosophy" in "PhD" doesn't actually refer to what we think of as "philosophy" today. Someone who earns a Bachelor's of Science degree in the Performing Arts isn't a scientist, either, despite their degree. It is doubtful that they took a single science course during their entire undergraduate career, in fact. By contrast, my husband has a Bachelor of Arts degree in BioPsychology. Science courses were the vast majority of his curriculum. So, I don't really think that we can pin much meaning on to the whole Doctor of Philosophy title as it pertains to what we think of today as philosophy. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Meh, I don't think so. Academia is a place of tradition and convention; hallowed halls of the ivy walls and all that. Stuff gets put into place for one reason, meanings change over time, but as long as everybody knows what they all mean, it stays the same. You know, like we have the "laws" of thermodynamics but the "theory" of evolution, even though there is no real difference in surety or status within their diciplines.
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