Posted: Jan 17, 2017 4:43 pm
VazScep wrote:Taxonomists are tedious people.
A lot of this debate seems to me to be about taxonomy. And maybe a bit of fashion (it's not cool to be a scientist nowadays and acknowledge philosophy, or something).
And then there's the fact that a lot of armchair philosophy really is pretty useless, imo, regarding knowledge about the world. Other than subjective knowledge.
Here's a question. Could you foresee a situation in the future in which scientists might want to or have to fall back on activities more philosophical than currently? Some sort of catastrophe for or grinding to a halt of the current scientific method?