Mike G. wrote:
> On the below you are only half right... A lot of Anglo-Saxonia and
> particulalry the Brits have been pre-occupied with the number of
> nits they could parse from the hind side of whatever mangy
> analytical dog might be roaming by... but there has also been some
> very interesting Philosophy of Knowledge, Philsopohy of Science,
> Phenomenology, even Existentialism which has been rather more true
> (to) life -- FWIW.
Near the end of my sophomore year I contemplated changing my major
from chemistry to philosophy. After a little investigation, I came up
with this synopsis:
The goal of philosophy is to construct sentences which begin, "It
may be said that...."
The established philosopher strives to construct sentences which
begin, "It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that...."
(I stayed with chemistry. :-)
That somewhat sophomoric observation (Hey, I was a sophomore, okay?)
seems, in retrospect, to have contained a grain of truth. In any
event, I was much more taken, a decade or so onward, with Warren
McCulloch who described himself 60 or more years ago as an
"experimental epistemologist." His and his contemporaries' approach
has arborized, today, into cognitive neuroscience, neural modeling
and similar domains.
I still bog down trying to read stuff billed as philosophy, much the
same as with economics. Well, I did confess that my perspective on
philosophy was "notably under-informed".
- Mike
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