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> I also think we sometimes overlook the triumphs of the humanities because they look so different than those in the natural sciences. While physics has the nuc
by thanatropism 7y ago
> I also think we sometimes overlook the triumphs of the humanities because they look so different than those in the natural sciences. While physics has the nuclear bomb, philosophy may well lay a claim to that bomb never being used after 1945.
Unless you want to claim a name for it, I'm going to start to cite it "as noted in an online forum...". It's a very good observation.
- matt4077 7y agoIf it were forever possible to trace this idea back to me, or to whomever I got it from, that would sort of disprove my point :)
- phkahler 7y ago>> While physics has the nuclear bomb, philosophy may well lay a claim to that bomb never being used after 1945. I really like that quote as much as the other poster. But then I realized that the reason it hasn't been used may lie in game theory. That also brings us back to evolutionary biology. Still, philosophy is a nice abstract way to think about it. Oh, and never say never.
- thanatropism 7y agoWait. The link between evolutionary biology and game theory as an efficacious theory of how people ask is.. analogical at best. Game theory worked as a conceptual background for nuclear nonproliferation (and even then, not the only concept background) because of a particular philosophy of human existence leading to a particular theory of action. Theories, whether scientific in the deeper sense (hard genetics backed by lab data) or wider frameworks carrying the aura of sciencinesss, are not effective in the world on their own.