You (and really, the whole of Lesswrong) should Popper’s paper “The Nature of Philosophical Problems and Their Roots in Science”.
An excellent recommendation. Thank you.
Of course [Kant’s “Critique” is] confused and wrong. But in its time it was brilliant and original.
I won’t disagree that it was brilliant and original. My question was whether it was helpful. Or, if you prefer, whether it was fruitful.
I’m a big fan of David Hume. And I understand that Hume’s writing on “the problem of induction” was fruitful to the extent that it stimulated Kant’s work. My problem is that my distaste for Kant leads me to doubt that Hume’s work here was fruitful. Or at least I have to doubt that it has yet borne fruit yet (though Laplace, Jaynes, and Solomonoff have certainly tried heroically to grow something digestible from that barren ground.)
An excellent recommendation. Thank you.
I won’t disagree that it was brilliant and original. My question was whether it was helpful. Or, if you prefer, whether it was fruitful.
I’m a big fan of David Hume. And I understand that Hume’s writing on “the problem of induction” was fruitful to the extent that it stimulated Kant’s work. My problem is that my distaste for Kant leads me to doubt that Hume’s work here was fruitful. Or at least I have to doubt that it has yet borne fruit yet (though Laplace, Jaynes, and Solomonoff have certainly tried heroically to grow something digestible from that barren ground.)