> And people that contribute are incredibly smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison. As someone who studied both computer science and philo

> And people that contribute are incredibly smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison. As someone who studied both computer science and philosophy ( CS and Philosophy degrees ), no. > Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field. What? > Philosophy of Mind, apart from a few great minds (Chalmers, Nagel) is also equivocal. What? Not sure how to respond to your comment since you are all over the place. But there are plenty of smart minds in software engineering/computer science and plenty of dumb minds in philosophy. Not sure where you get the idea that philosophers are smarter than "software engineers" and what metric you are using to determine it. But if you have a metric, I'd love for you to lay it out.