Taking this class next semester to satisfy a gen ed requirement. Will I be able to make it through the lectures without breaking out laughing?
ITT: things you learned from reading the philosophy of science
Wyatt Brown
Carter Cruz
>>Never go full retard. Math was built by mathematicians and does not involve philosophy. Every field of math was initially inspired by real world applications and then went on to more sophisticated abstractions. At no point was a philosopher needed. You're so pseudo-intellectual that you became anti-intellectual.
Russell is rolling in his grave right now.
Oliver Brown
> principia mathematica
> not shit
Wyatt Sanchez
Mathematics would be counting-integers-with-your-fingers level without philosophy.
Jose Bell
>PHIL209: Quantum Mechanics Woo
Sounds hilarious, be ready to take pictures of the board for us.
Chase Russell
Philosophy makes even counting-integers-with-your-fingers difficult.
John Adams
Are you kidding me? Do you have a mental retardation or something? The amount of knowledge you need to understand the context of a philosophical problem is beyond the grasp of your feeble mind. As with any field of study you need to know the technical terms and philosophy as a lot of them, more so than any other subject matter. You need to know logic, set theory, modal logic and so on in order to understand the informal arguments that are being made in philosophy. Proof theory, model theory, set theory et cetera can all be said to be very philosophical in nature.
David Powell
What's wrong with it? I would take it
Matthew Robinson
Without Philosophy you can never rule of fallacies, aka incorrect presumptions.
Without weeding out fallacies, science isn't science, it's religion.
This is an infallible fact.
It seems to me that you're a teenager that keeps hearing about the philosophy of science but you don't comprehend it.
You probably have also been told philosophy is crap, when it's not... usually when people are told this by someone with no education what so ever (and even by people with an education) it's because they're referring to postmodern philosophy, sophism or marxist critical theory.
So you're throwing down straw man arguments while laughing hysterically because you don't even know what straw man arguments are...
...because you have no idea what fallacies are and why they're important.
I'm willing to bet you think circular logic is the best form of logic there is.
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Isaac Carter
No, that's not how you make this point:
>As someone who is educated and interested in STEM as well as philosophy, I can say that from both perspectives the "philosophy of science" is pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
This is even less of an argument. You are not even an authority and could pull shit out of your ass for all you care. Your unis cannot do that as easily and if they are full of shit, chances are we'd know.