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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Amy J who wrote (219623)2/18/2005 9:33:59 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1574683
 
"Somehow I don't see philosophical people being commanding."

Then you haven't studied philosophy. Not that you would have missed all that much...

Haven't touched the stuff in decades, personally. But my wife is a Phd candidate in it so I can't avoid it.

There are a huge variety of schools. In general, most seem to take a good idea and then push it to stupid extremes. And yes, many leading philosophers can be more than a little commanding and spend a whole lot of time belittling the other schools. And the fields of philosophy of mind or philosophy of science can be really bad. There are too many leading lights who take some dimly understood research and spin an entire career out of it. My wife is struggling with a guy who takes the space-time concept from General Relativity and argues that it is real. From that, he divides time concepts into 'A' time, i.e. absolute time (8:54 am, May 5, 1992) and 'B' time, relative time(yesterday). Ok, fine. But then he proceeds to claim that 'B' time doesn't really exist because it is based on our perception of time flowing instead of being fixed as General Relativity has proven. Which, of course, ignores the fact that the model of space-time chosen by Einstein was a convenience to simplify his equations. And don't get me started on the phil. of mind scholars who liken the mind to a computer and then claim that all computers are Turing machines or pure Von Neuman ones...

And then there is epistemology. That is a whole different rant.
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