Disgust With Philosophy
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+ | I believe philosophical thinking is a necessary tool. But not for any knowledge or wisdom. The only valid use I find for philosophy is to REJECT ideas: most prominently those of philosophers. When students tell me they are interested in philosophy, I want to steer them away from it: what a futile waste of time! | ||
+ | It is easy to disbelieve in the vast majority of philosophy for the exact same reasons you can disbelieve in the vast majority of religion. | ||
+ | * They contradict each other so very much that at most only a tiny fraction could be true. | ||
+ | * They are usually not rooted in observed reality: they believe untestable things such as souls or morality. | ||
+ | * They play stupid word games. | ||
+ | * Their logic is grotesque. | ||
+ | * They usually slide in is/ought fallacies or ideals/absolutes which do not exist. | ||
− | * [http://screwplato.wordpress.com/ Plato is Terrible] | + | I'm collecting a number of references to criticisms of philosophy. |
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+ | * [http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo.] <br>The famous "forty different ways in which thought can go irretrievably wrong" about the number three. I can't recommend this highly enough. | ||
+ | * [http://screwplato.wordpress.com/ Plato is Terrible]: rants of a frustrated philosophy student. |