I hear you. But what would you like to do with it? I feel the question itself, the history, etc., is very focusing. It offers a new understanding of b...
Yes...and if we had another 20/30 years of runway, this would be good. But much like the tobacco industry, the fossil fuel industry will fight to the ...
There's truth to this. But I would make two points: (1), I view capitalism as the real religion, and a particular variant of it seems to be dominating...
Maybe not. But the way I see it, if that's true -- it's hopeless anyway. But since that's not set in stone, I will keep trying. By the way, I see it b...
It will not pass. If Manchin decides to pass something, which has been reported he's interested in doing so piece-meal, it will be devoid of anything ...
I wouldn’t bother too much with Ayn Rand dogmatists/liars who are interested only in posturing. Let them be happy with “philosophy becomes science whe...
Very true. Plenty of bad answers, of course. Sometimes the question itself isn't formulated well enough that there can even be an answer. Agreed. I'm ...
So’s science, no? Plenty of mysteries in science— unsolved problems, puzzling questions, etc. Science is able to answer questions because it sets cert...
I don’t see the difference. Science seeks to understand nature, seeking naturalistic explanations. That’s natural philosophy. Yes, we’ve since given i...
This did give me a chuckle. True— not now, anyway. But remember, science comes out of natural philosophy, and is not without its ontological foundatio...
This depends on whether we want to define them as entirely different. I look at it as a spectrum. The difference between natural philosophy and scienc...
No response. What objections? What exactly are their “objections” that you refer to? Since you’re lying, and have no clue what they argue, they could ...
Says the Ayn Rand follower. lol. So you don't know what normative means. Got it. You realize I can scroll back and see what you said, right? Like: Goo...
"epistemic success" is a value judgement, if it's even coherent. No one here is making normative claims other than you. "Descriptive Science" is meani...
So you don't know what normative means, either. Great... Normative refers to norms or ethics. That has nothing to do with anything I've said, or anyth...
Translation: Never read a word of Kuhn or Feyerabend. So you find most of their "critique" to be outdated and based on "normative guidelines," eh? Wha...
Factually AND "fractally"! Damn...guess we all can't pretend to be geniuses. You're right to bow out of this conversation with your tail between your ...
He's interested only in pretending to be an intellectual authority, when in reality his simpleminded. Ayn Rand-following view is a hodgepodge of clich...
Science does not produce objective facts. Let me help you: What you mean to say is this: science has empirical methods (experimentation, observation, ...
To return to what was originally stated (correctly): All of this stands. Science was once called natural philosophy. The assumption made is that of na...
Science doesn't produce objective facts. That was your claim, and I've already explained why it isn't so. Your digression about independent verificati...
Science doesn't produce objective facts. I said nothing about independent verification, which is one aspect of what's called science, yes. "Objectivis...
Biden has been mostly rhetoric on climate change. But yes, there have been some relevant moves. The appointment of judges is also helpful to climate c...
Science doesn't produce objective facts. "Science respects Objectivism" is meaningless to me -- and I don't know why you capitalize it. If you're refe...
Yeah, I learn towards that position but I wouldn't be at all shocked if it turns out to be something I hadn't considered altogether. Fair enough. I do...
A New York Times article recently suggests that Putin, being surrounded by "yes" men, had no idea the war would go this way. He thought Russian forces...
I like Yalom a lot, but the link he finds to therapy is his own. The above wording isn't exactly right, either. The terms are ready-to-hand and presen...
The "science" in this case being based on human reason, intelligence and creativity. Empiricism is fine, and I have a high respect for science, but yo...
I agree that philosophy is a kind of thinking. I'm sure it involves aspects of critical thinking, too. But not all critical thinking is philosophy. Wh...
It’s just not that simple. No matter how much Richard Dawkins we read. Science was (and is) natural philosophy. The very concept of “nature” and “phys...
‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/climate/climate-change-ok-doomer.html?action=click&...
I don't think anyone addresses moral questions better than Nietzsche, at least in the West. The one exception may be Aristotle. But in terms of philos...
"As I said earlier..." Where I made a clear distinction by what kind of "thinking" I'm here referring to: philosophical thought. Which you'd know if y...
I don’t see why. One can be a musician having never read a music book — or ever hear Beethoven. I don’t think that’s true at all. I think many questio...
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