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I agree. > people who want to do philosophy without studying any of it strikes me as unnecessary gatekeeping. The context here is fairly basic logic and criti
by nwiswell 4y ago
I agree.
> people who want to do philosophy without studying any of it
strikes me as unnecessary gatekeeping. The context here is fairly basic logic and critical thinking that clearly does not require formal study. I hope that more people who haven't ever been formal students of philosophy employ critical thinking, not less!
- astrange 4y agoBy “studying it” I’d be fine with, like, reading Wikipedia articles. The people who say “steelman” a lot aren’t just busy with other things. They’re like full time bloggers and write huge essays constantly about their own system of critical rationalism and thinking correctly and all that, all philosophical topics. Avoiding the literature is more intentional. Part because they want their community to use all different words so they’ll sound different and engineer-y. Part because they’d be annoyed that midcentury philosophy already tried their project and now thinks it doesn’t work.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoLuckily, it’s easy to tackle them: just mention Roko’s Basilisk and they automatically self-destruct.