Should philosophers know any and every branch of science?

[Moreno]

@Arminius

How many ILP members are really interested in philosophy? What do you think?

I would be charitable and say, vaguely, most. They do want to discuss ideas that are discussed by philosophers.

Yes, of course. By the way: Dawkins is a good example for those who can say as much nonsense as they want and will nonetheless be taken seriously.

The category of poster I am least charitable with is the ‘voice of reason and science’ poster who doesn’t really know any philosophy, certainly not any epistemology or philosophy of science, has little idea of how one justifies an assertion, is content with fallacies strewn in their own posts as they deride whomever they consider barbarians, such as Chrisitans, New Agers, alternative medicine people, conspiracy theorists, spiritual people. Dawkins is a famous example of the type.

[Moreno]

@Arminius

Maybe I was or am (?) one of the examples loving the polymath naturalist of the last third of the 18th and of the first two thirds of the 19th century. One of my class teacher called me „Humboldt“, because he thought I could become a polymath naturalist. Well, I think that my class teacher did not know everything about me ( ) or about F. Wilhelm C. C. F. von Humboldt (1767-1835) and his brother F. W. H Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).

What didn’t your teacher know about you? them?

[Arminius]

@Moreno

Yes, of course. By the way: Dawkins is a good example for those who can say as much nonsense as they want and will nonetheless be taken seriously.

The category of poster I am least charitable with is the ‘voice of reason and science’ poster who doesn’t really know any philosophy, certainly not any epistemology or philosophy of science, has little idea of how one justifies an assertion, is content with fallacies strewn in their own posts as they deride whomever they consider barbarians, such as Chrisitans, New Agers, alternative medicine people, conspiracy theorists, spiritual people. Dawkins is a famous example of the type.

Yes.

@Moreno

@Arminius

Maybe I was or am (?) one of the examples loving the polymath naturalist of the last third of the 18th and of the first two thirds of the 19th century. One of my class teacher called me „Humboldt“, because he thought I could become a polymath naturalist. Well, I think that my class teacher did not know everything about me ( ) or about F. Wilhelm C. C. F. von Humboldt (1767-1835) and his brother F. W. H Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).

What didn’t your teacher know about you? them?

Well, he did perhaps not know for example what kind of life I prefered to lead at that time. If he had known that, then he would not have called me „Humboldt“, or he would not have known the lifestyle of the noble (aristocratic) von Humboldt brothers.