Scientific method, reason, utilitarianism, logic, subjective and objective probability. Although if asked some well-educated people would concede these might have come from philosophy, they often will still see philosophy as a failed, diseased, mislead and/or useless enterprise instead as one of the most fundamental and useful fields.
A common overlapping pattern is to agree with a subset of philosophy’s claims, say there’s nothing more to be discussed and that, hence, philosophy is useless.
Scientific method, reason, utilitarianism, logic, subjective and objective probability. Although if asked some well-educated people would concede these might have come from philosophy, they often will still see philosophy as a failed, diseased, mislead and/or useless enterprise instead as one of the most fundamental and useful fields.
A common overlapping pattern is to agree with a subset of philosophy’s claims, say there’s nothing more to be discussed and that, hence, philosophy is useless.
I would love to see a justification of ‘reason’, myself. What work(s) would you point to as having made the breakthrough on reason?
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There a lot of basic work in proability came from mathematicians like Bernoulli and Laplace.
The same goes for the “scientific method”. Most scientists just do whatever they feel make sense and that let’s them use their toys.
Can you point to breakthroughs by academic 20th/21th century philosophers?
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