Re: Philosophy: It doesn't suck so bad we can't ignore it

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 07:18:02 MST


"Emlyn" <emlyn@one.net.au> writes:

> Lucky science isn't grounded in philosophy, or we'd all be up the creek.

Oh dear, science largely developed from philosophy and if you want to
read up on the foundations of science you go to the philosophy
bookshelves rather than the science ones...

(Actually, pancritical rationalism in some sense makes scientific
foundations at somewhat empirical, but you still have to do some
philosophical thinking there)

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