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Justin:
>>>JKS: philosophers cannot tell scientistr What Is Good Method.
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>>JD They can tell them, but only a small number will listen.
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>I was unclear. I meant: We _should_ not tell them. We have no
>special knowledge. No one appointed us the method police.
I think you're right, but philosophers used to think that they had
special insight into the nature of knowledge production. When do you
think that philosophers decided that they really didn't?
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CB: Philosophers had interpreted the world in a number of ways,now the thing is to
change the world based on interpretations. The test of theory, the special insight
into the nature of knowledge production, has become practice. We pursue and approach
the resolution of the ancient antagonism between predominantly physical and
predominantly mental labor.
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Moreover,
if philosophy is not the master of all disciplines, telling us the
truth of truths as it were, what is philosophy & what is the job of
the philosopher? All is rhetoric, as Rorty says? Should Philosophy
be subsumed under English & Comparative Literature, which in turn
should be subsumed under History?
Yoshie
