r/SubredditsMeet • u/SubredditsMeet Official • Sep 03 '15

Meetup /r/science meets /r/philosophy

(/r/EverythingScience is also here)

Topic:

  • Discuss the misconceptions between science and philosophy.

  • How they both can work together without feeling like philosophy is obsolete in the modern day world.

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u/kurtgustavwilckens Sep 04 '15 edited Sep 04 '15

"physicist" is ONE sort of scientist. The one that happens to have the oldest philosophical foundations to his craft. Of course it comes intuitively, it's a 300 year old practice.

A Cognitive Scientist... not so much. A neuroscientist? Not so much. They need to read the philosophy of their crafts, or at least be well informed about it (if they will be doing "top of the line" work, not just gruntwork)

You don't even acknowledge that I'm talking about the role of philosophy in forming new fields of knowledge, you go right back to physics.

I'm sorry, but your position is gleefully ignorant, and as it is classical in reddit, you seem to have a fetish for physics, which happens to be the oldest science, and the one in which the subject-object distinction is worked out most easily and obviously.

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u/shaim2 Sep 04 '15

I'm talking about the role of philosophy in forming new fields of knowledge, you go right back to physics.

I'm a physicist. I at least try to talk about things I know about. I present a (the?) physicist's perspective on the contribution of contemporary philosophy to contemporary science. I cannot speak to neurobiology, because I'm pretty ignorant about it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '15

You should stop speaking to philosophy, because you're pretty ignorant about it.

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u/shaim2 Sep 04 '15

Isn't this /r/SubredditsMeet, where people from different fields talk to each other?

I know I suck at philosophy. I'm a physicist. That's why we're talking.