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I disagree with your comment completely. It's not that philosophy teaches us how to think, and sciences teach us what to think. Philosophy teaches us how to pos
by pav3l 14y ago
I disagree with your comment completely. It's not that philosophy teaches us how to think, and sciences teach us what to think. Philosophy teaches us how to pose questions. As soon as we are able to address those questions the problem becomes science (e.g. natural philosophy--> physics, philosophy of mind--> psychology, etc.)
- gph1 14y agoSaying that all philosophical topics are just embryonic scientific topics is just as reductive and rigid as dividing the two by "how" and "what". Philosophy of mind is probably the dominant research area in contemporary philosophy, and I think you'd find a lot that doesn't overlap at all with empirical psychology.
- pav3l 14y ago>Philosophy of mind is probably the dominant research area in contemporary philosophy, and I think you'd find a lot that doesn't overlap at all with empirical psychology. It's not really my area of expertise, but maybe the reason that philosophy of mind is such a big research area in contemporary philosophy is because we haven't figured out how to study mind yet. Once we figure out the correct questions about things like consciousness, we should be able to address them scientifically (much like we are doing with perception, learning, etc. through neuroscience), or figure out why it can't be addressed scientifically, or come to some kind of other logical conclusion.
- ferrantim 14y agoGiven that dialectal reasoning (e.g. Socrates, Hegel, Marx) is essentially the thought process through questioning logical discrepancies, we're basically saying that same thing. Proof: If philosophy teaches us how to pose questions And posing questions is the basic of dialectical thought Then philosophy teaches us how to think.