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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Rambi who wrote (229844)5/5/2007 1:24:43 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
You have some excellent observations about undergrad Engineering education. What few class hours are available for elective studies, many engineering students elect to expend on related math & physics classes, rather than humanities.

Unfortunately, humanities, and philosophy in particular, lack the brilliant testability and usefulness that makes engineering so attractive, so it is not surprising that those attracted to engineering find philosophy rather unattractive.

It reminds me of a quote from the physicist Steven Weinburg (SP??) that goes something to the effect: "the only use of philosophy is to protect us from other bad philosophy". IMO, that is pretty much the contribution of philosophy to most human endeavors: It is fundamentally bad, but sometimes some philosophies help block the worst effects of other entrenched philosophies, thus helping us to discard them. Eventually we will discard the next set as well. So on it goes.
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