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I studied philosophy for a year, and I find it to be one of the most universally useful things I've studied. It's the process that is useful, not necessarily th
by fnordsensei 11y ago
I studied philosophy for a year, and I find it to be one of the most universally useful things I've studied. It's the process that is useful, not necessarily the content. The subject matter which you apply it to varies greatly in usefulness, but the process of thinking and deconstructing that you acquire as a skill while doing it is tremendously helpful everywhere else.
- peterashford 11y agoYes - and I think you hit on why people who don't do Philosophy fail to understand it. They see discussions about Metaphysics and think that's the point, whereas the point is how you justify positions, what's a good argument, what's bad. All of Metaphysics is useless, for example, but knowing WHY it's useless is invaluable =)
- solipsism 11y agoThe parts of Philosophy that everyone should know and study, especially in science and engineering fields, are often part of a Philosophy department, but they aren't the controversial parts. These courses could easily exist independent of a Philosophy department. My Philosophy of Science course, pertinent to my field of study, being offered by the same department as my Hellenistic Philosophy course, not pertinent to any field of study except Philosophy, is silly. Same goes for my Discrete Mathematics + Symbolic Logic course.