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Not anti-intellectualism at all, and not even anti-philosophy. If I'm anti- anything, I am against those philosophers who refuse to make disprovable assertions
by sklivvz1971 10y ago
Not anti-intellectualism at all, and not even anti-philosophy.
If I'm anti- anything, I am against those philosophers who refuse to make disprovable assertions and instead use rhetoric and non-formal logic to make their points.
The reason is simple, their stuff comes and goes. They contradict each other -- and often do not accept scientific fact simply because they do not understand it.
Philosophy was once the only way to investigate some particularly hard problems, such as "where do we come from?" or "what is the mind?". With recent scientific and technological advances, we actually got some fact-based answers there. Cosmology, standard model, evolutionary biology, neuroscience are evidence-based sciences that override, and often contradict, most philosophical speculations of the past. A lot of philosophers simply do not have the domain knowledge anymore.
I know that some argue that those sciences are philosophy, but, frankly, that's stretching reality.
Last point, my dislike for philosophers is not a "new" position. See what Richard Feynman had to say about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo