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Straggler
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02-18-2011 2:27 PM

Is philosophy a load of navel gazing pompous pointless nonsense? or does philosophy provide us with the foundations on which science and society are formed?
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I would say a bit of both. I think real philosophy is absolutely vital to the sort of questions EvC is designed to contend with. BUT there is undoubtably a contingent of philosophers who need their superior post-modern bubble to be burst. As per Alan Sokal and the Fashionable Nonsense
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But this post-modern drivel doesn’t make all philosophy pointless. The need for philosophy remains with regard to how and why we should choose to live (i.e moral/political philosophy) and how/what we can know and to what extent we can distinguish things like belief from knowledge (i.e epistemology).
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What do others (Hello Mod and Crashfrog) think?
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02-18-2011 5:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Straggler
02-18-2011 2:27 PM

I don't seem to know where to put this. Will the coffee house do ?
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02-18-2011 8:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 2 by AdminSlev
02-18-2011 5:23 PM

Philosophy 101 (Pointless or Pertinent)
Wherever you think best.
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02-23-2011 4:49 PM

**Bump For Admins**
To promote or not to promote......
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02-23-2011 9:03 PM

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