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All degrees bar philosophy come with bundles of ideological perspective. To truly think critically you must free yourself from ideology as best you can. The d

All degrees bar philosophy come with bundles of ideological perspective. To truly think critically you must free yourself from ideology as best you can. The demarcation between the humanities and social sciences and the so-called hard(er) sciences is not a division of technicality. To say that you can split the degrees awarded by our academic institutions into technical versus non-technical and then claim that the more technical are freer of ideology is a supremely ideological statement. Also, you've managed to conflate not two but three distinct ideas in order to make the claim that you've made: for the purposes of this conversation subjective judgements come in two flavo(u)rs - the first is where you evaluate according to some standard, the second is where you impose your values. It is only the second of these that can be in any way said to be ideological and only then it is only when you become identified with the values you are imposing on the world which happens rarely - and get this, people in technical degrees do this all the time.

AnimalMuppet 10y ago
"Bar philosophy"? Baloney. Philosophy has its own ideological perspective(s).
- pboutros 10y ago
  How? It's the study and critique of ideologies, without a judgment of right / wrong.
  - AnimalMuppet 10y ago
    In theory, yes. In practice, though, postmodernism (taken as a whole) most definitely has an ideology. So did logical positivism. And even more in practice, if you go to a university to study philosophy, the philosophy department at your university will definitely have an ideological bias.
    - projectramo 10y ago
      For this discussion, we might have to distinguish between continental philosophy and analytic philosophy, and then talk about how each is biased in their own way. Continental philosophy is, in one sense, about the bias inherent in all thought. One might say that analytic philosophy is about finding the bias free portion of thought, and judgments differ on whether they succeed. Richard Rorty would be an interesting example of a critique of the second sort of philosophy in this context.

AnimalMuppet 10y ago

"Bar philosophy"? Baloney. Philosophy has its own ideological perspective(s).

pboutros 10y ago
How? It's the study and critique of ideologies, without a judgment of right / wrong.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago
  In theory, yes. In practice, though, postmodernism (taken as a whole) most definitely has an ideology. So did logical positivism. And even more in practice, if you go to a university to study philosophy, the philosophy department at your university will definitely have an ideological bias.
  - projectramo 10y ago
    For this discussion, we might have to distinguish between continental philosophy and analytic philosophy, and then talk about how each is biased in their own way. Continental philosophy is, in one sense, about the bias inherent in all thought. One might say that analytic philosophy is about finding the bias free portion of thought, and judgments differ on whether they succeed. Richard Rorty would be an interesting example of a critique of the second sort of philosophy in this context.