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Well, as if non-academic internet? philosophers are better at agreeing or reaching any form of truth. I'm very skeptical about that.
by a-nikolaev 6y ago
Well, as if non-academic internet? philosophers are better at agreeing or reaching any form of truth. I'm very skeptical about that.
- Iv 6y agoI certainly hope that the "internet-philosophers" include some academics as well. No I am more talking about people who do philosophy "accidentally" as part of their jobs: scientists or engineers mostly. And on many philosophical questions, yes, most specialists in a field will tend to reach more agreement than academic philosophers. To take an example I know, I think you will find far more agreement on things like the nature of qualia or the relevance of Searle's Chinese room amongst AI researchers than you would among academic philosophers. Nowadays, many philosophical questions benefit from a scientific background that academic philosophers just lack. Some philosophical positions are simply wrong or come from a misunderstanding solved decades ago by scientists.
- a-nikolaev 6y agoYeah, but what you are saying now is more like that academic/professional non-philosophers are easier to reach an agreement on particular philosophy-adjacent questions from their field of expertise. Yeah, this is totally possible, but I think, this is not the same as your original statement.