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?
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
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).
What do others (Hello Mod and Crashfrog) think?