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Philosophy 1: Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

This is your brain on Philosophy: model citizen.

On bruinwalk.com, a website where UCLA students can post anonymous reviews of professors and other staff members, Harris got low ratings. In one review, a student wrote that Harris is “extremely unprofessional.”
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TIL "hell is other people" was more of a precaution. Like "be careful of who you surround yourself with," not "isolate yourself in perpetuity."
 
Which philosophers were most known for their depth of scientific knowledge of the day? And are the advances in neuroscience and our understanding of what drives our decision making and belief systems having a significant impact on the philosophical discussions of our day?
 
burd said:
Which philosophers were most known for their depth of scientific knowledge of the day? And are the advances in neuroscience and our understanding of what drives our decision making and belief systems having a significant impact on the philosophical discussions of our day?
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1. Aristotle, of course. Most of the Islamic Golden Age scholars (Avicenna, Averroes -- the philosophy/science distinction did not exist yet). Leibniz (a scientist and philosopher of the very first rank). Goethe is arguably a genius artist, scientist, and philosopher, even as late as the early 19th century, which is mind-blowing.

2. Yes, definitely. William James and Gilbert Ryle brought modern science into questions of epistemology. Husserl was very important in creating phenomenology, which combined psychology and in later incarnations neuroscience with questions of ontology. Since the Linguistic Turn (Wittgenstein -- who I should mention was an engineer, Chomsky, Quine), analytic philosophy has been almost exclusively (cough detrimentally /cough) a scientific dissection of language through analyzing the material strata of mind).
 
Kepler said:
1. Aristotle, of course. Most of the Islamic Golden Age scholars (Avicenna, Averroes -- the philosophy/science distinction did not exist yet). Leibniz (a scientist and philosopher of the very first rank). Goethe is arguably a genius artist, scientist, and philosopher, even as late as the early 19th century, which is mind-blowing.

2. Yes, definitely. William James and Gilbert Ryle brought modern science into questions of epistemology. Husserl was very important in creating phenomenology, which combined psychology and in later incarnations neuroscience with questions of ontology. Since the Linguistic Turn (Wittgenstein -- who I should mention was an engineer, Chomsky, Quine), analytic philosophy has been almost exclusively (cough detrimentally /cough) a scientific dissection of language through analyzing the material strata of mind).
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My thoughts exactly.

But thanks for the informed reply.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Kep, maybe you would know:

What is it about existentialism that resonates so deeply with me?
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One's identity is what one makes it, yet it's still not arbitrary -- there is a core that is you. It is a combination of discovery and action to "know yourself."

Sure seems like you would have a deeper and more intimate understand of this than any of we mere cis mortals. :-)
 
Kepler said:
One's identity is what one makes it, yet it's still not arbitrary -- there is a core that is you. It is a combination of discovery and action to "know yourself."

Sure seems like you would have a deeper and more intimate understand of this than any of we mere cis mortals. :-)
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Foucault says knowledge comes from conflict and the outcome of that conflict. That's a huge part of it.

Camus believes in the Invincible Summer pushing right back. That's part of it.

Simone de Beauvoir talks about it being so extraordinary to be oneself and no one else. Yes.
Sartre said we can do any damn thing we want, which is more than we dare to imagine. I've quoted that a lot.
 
I've always felt that the world doesn't push me at all. It's that I push and the world just dumbly resists. But once I learn the contours of the world I can slide around to where I wanted to be by a different route.
 
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