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What is speculative philosophy? [closed]
What is speculative philosophy? What might be good or bad about it?
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If there is progress in philosophy, Why is there no philosophers or thinkers as important today as in the past? [closed]
Why don't we have thinkers in the present time (or recent times) that have the same caliber as Albert Einstein, Archimedes, Socrates, Shakespeare, Freud, Aristotle, Plato, Darwin, Popper and all the ...
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Does everything which can be figured out through observation disqualify as philosophy?
Does a scientific question which we have not yet had the resources or time to answer scientifically classify as philosophically relevant? Or does everything which can be figured out through ...
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How would you describe the relationship of science and philosophy of science?
How would you describe the relationship of science and philosophy of science? Is it a worldview that sets a tone to scientific jargon? I mean that statements of eg. physics are under submission of the ...
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What can suffice as a scientific proof for God? to what domain can such a proof belong to?
"Scientific" theories require proof, and there are certain guidelines and standards for the proofs to be acceptable to the "scientific" community in that domain (Algebra, Computer Science, etc.). ...
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Do different branches of philosophy correlate with different dispositions to psychological attitudes? [closed]
Speaking anecdotally, it's been my experience that logicians have the best senses of humor, metaphysicians tend to a little pomposity and lot of wine, philosophy-of-language types are a little ...
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What is meant by an Appeal?
To Appeal to a concept would seem to originally be (in the day of Greek metaphysics) a somewhat poetic device metaphorically gesturing toward whatever concept understanding might be sought from.
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Why should I read about philosophy?
I'm not sure this question belongs here. It's clearly an open-ended question that probably does not have a canonical answer. I would like to ask you to help me restate this question in a better way if ...
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Does a philosopher need much knowledge of mathematical/formal logic?
I am not a philosopher but I would like to ask this question. I know that there are philosophers like Hobbes, Locke or Foucault, who excel in the areas of ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics. ...
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Is philosophy a method than a body presenting knowldge? [closed]
While it may seem as a question, yet of its real context asks of concurrence.
I have red an academic reference in political analysis, being a political science scholar, it clearly expounded the ...
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Can a philosopher philosophize without logic?
Logic, which I mean as the system or subject not the adjective; like modal propositional logic, etc., and not an adjective stating rationality, sense of thinking, common sense, etc.
Perhaps we all ...
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Can knowledge about argumentation be sufficient for philosophical logic without too symbolic or mathematical concepts?
The most important element for expression of truth is trough an argument, with premises and conclusion. Argumentation requires to avoid fallacies and adhere to the truth. However logic if treated as a ...
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What philosophical tradition/ school advocates the use of informal logic as a better tool than formal logic?
There are some notable persons who criticized formal logic in favor of informal logic for various reasons, like Schiller. So what is the school of thought or tradition that incorporates or adheres to ...
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Can a certain branch of philosophy exist and be discussed independently from other branches? [closed]
To be more clearer with the question let us compare for this instance sociology to philosophy, both being a broad subject. Sociology has many branches including political science, psychology, ...
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Is Philosophy formalisable?
This is something that has irked me for quite some time, especially since I come from a mathematically oriented background.
Can the field of Philosophy be formalised in the sense that Mathematics is ...
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How to earn the title of Philosopher? [duplicate]
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Is everyone considered a “philosopher”?
I commonly hear politicians say that they are philosophers. And a favorite degree offered by diploma mills is ...
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What if any are the differences between materialism and empiricism?
Are the differences, if they exist merely semantic ("First World War" vs "World War One") or are they more substantial; for example one's a historical trend and the other's a broader philosophical ...
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Which Philosophers are most often cited as Materialists?
Which Philosophers are most often cited as Materialists (aka physicalists)?
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What is a mathematical representation of the physical world?
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Was mathematics invented or discovered?
To be more precise, does mathematics describe the physical world or does it describe a mental representation of the physical ...
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What hierarchies exist in different branches of Philosophy?
If you were to map out different branches of Philosophy in a hierarchical nature on multiple levels in order to compare them what would some look like or could you point me to a reference that sorts ...
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Philosophy of Philosophy and Experience [duplicate]
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What is the practical use of philosophy?
Does philosophy move us toward a deeper understanding of the human condition, or does philosophy push us away from understanding ...
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Does philosophy belong to empirical science or formal science?
According to Wikipedia, science
can be divided into empirical
science (such as natural science and
social science) and formal
science (such as mathematics,
logic, statistics). I was wondering
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Can you prove anything in philosophy?
I don't understand philosophy very well, and so I am wondering whether you can "prove" anything in philosophy. It always seems you can go a layer down, and find another question, almost endlessly ...
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What is Philosophy? [closed]
What is a comprehensive definition of Philosophy? Alternatively, is it impossible to define Philosophy? This is a pseudo-meta question, but it seems like it belongs here.
