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My experience is exactly the opposite. My undergraduate philosophy degree had exactly one history class. Names of philosophers were important mostly to label
by jnwatson 6y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite. My undergraduate philosophy degree had exactly one history class. Names of philosophers were important mostly to label ideas.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with respect to philosophical positions invalidated by science. I can't think of any myself.
- Nasrudith 6y agoThe ancient Greek philosophers contain some real howlers like Aristotlean impetus and belief that women must have fewer teeth than men because of a smaller skull and an assumption that human teeth are identical in size and spacing. They refused to check their ideas to reality under a self indulgent concept of "purity of thought". I blame aristocratic influnce and the disdain for the practical.
- denton-scratch 6y agoThat would be the "pre-socratics". I was forced to study them for my degree, and I could barely contain my laughter. Some of those guys had some pretty bonkers beliefs, and it does seem to be true that they often disdained actually cheecking their claims empirically. A few of them were on the nail, though, at least sometimes; Democritus, for example.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoFunny also how pythagoricians found some mathematical truths and went all cult-like because of it...