Hes right about interpreting marx.
A hawaiian stemlords take on philosophy
Leo White
Matthew Gonzalez
That's literally just math. It only sounds weird and "philosophical" when you describe it with words.
Matthew Brown
HILeftReview is referring to discussions with people like AW, so you couldn't be more wrong about that accusation.
Yes.
Physics tells you something about global warming, so knowing physics and talking about this hot topic gets you branded an insane political extremist I guess. Philosophy is a really vague term, you probably include musing about politics in that (as would Aristotle). The way HLR talks about it he has a more narrow view of it, for him you can talk about politics by researching stuff = doing political science, and what remains of philosophy minus that is mostly posturing and word games. I don't see why I should have respect for people doing philosophy when most of it amounts to pretentious huffing and puffing, repetitive gestures of having superior intellect, with basically fuckall to back up, no new vaccines, no beautiful planes to show off, no new exciting sturdy and light materials, no clever programs, nothing.
I have tried some philosophers and they all suck ass (inb4 "but the scene around my guy is different!!"). Heidegger was a Nazi. You know what Kierkegaard is like? Imagine Calvin from the strip Calvin and Hobbes (well there is one good thing inspired by philosophy after all I guess) getting depressed as he grows up and becoming a batshitinsane and extremely sexist hikikomori. That's your Kierkegaard. How about some Leibnitz:
"Bu-bu-but he also did math!" Bubububuttfuck yourself. As if any of you philosophyfags who ever bring up that some people who did philosophy among other things did indeed to other things than philosophy (those other things being the reason why people give a fuck about them) ever take that as inspiration to learn about these other useful things.
Dominic Cox
That's Antonio Wolf AKA Anal Water the Pseud.
Charles Gonzalez
FFS Zig Forums.
Asher White
Your autism is showing.
Tyler Torres
IMO the problem with applying philosophy in the modern day is that philosophy is most commonly understood in the way that it is encountered/practiced in academia. The problem specifically lies in the structure of your average academic organization, in which there are a multitude of incredibly specialized departments that all fall under the umbrella of 'humanities'. Disciplines such as sociology, political science, and economics are in many ways applied philosophy. So if most of the different forms that philosophy has taken as it has been applied to certain real world issues have been arbitrarily separated from "philosophy" proper, then the domain of the academic philosopher has become increasingly confined to as you say, word games and thought exercises. I imagine that an academia that wasn't so laser-focused on careerism would lead to less specialized academics who would be trained in both science and philosophy, but that simply isn't the case in much of the world today
Cooper Roberts
I think most philosophy of ontology or epistemology or whatever is pretty esoteric and generally not that useful, but I'd just say that I agree with the guy above me that there are a lot of fields that are basically "applied philosophy" which are necessary, and are necessarily a bit muddled and up to subjective evaluations that aren't based in any objective facts beyond deciding how you're going to make your measurement and collect your data. But what precedes that is basically subjective philosophical voodoo. This clearly isn't as present in something like physics.
Jackson James
Found the issue, AW isn’t philosophically minded.
Ryan Fisher
Why do STEMfags always feel like they have to justify their ignorance? Socrates had the right of it: Don't pretend to know things you know shit about.