Timeline for Are there criteria for good philosophy ? If so, what are they ?
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 0:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 0:33 | comment | added | user64125 | Does this answer your question? What are the standards for good and bad philosophy? | |
| Dec 6, 2018 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/1070468036493262848 | ||
| May 1, 2018 at 0:28 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Highly related would be a quote from Alan Watts I love: "A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel. He goes around gawking at all the things everyone else takes for granted." Maybe I'm just strange, but I find that answers the question better than anything else I have come across. | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 15:21 | vote | accept | Mr. Sigma. | ||
| Apr 30, 2018 at 12:00 | answer | added | simpatico | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 21:25 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | I'd say that you are in the right track; it's certainly true for the sciences. | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 21:21 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | @Rohith. I have edited your question. I have kept to your basic inquiry, which I think is fine. You can change the wording back but note that on the previous wording there are four votes to close the question. I am trying to keep an interesting question in the ring. | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 21:17 | history | edited | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Question and textbook simplified. Question is not the best possible but I think it should be given a chance and not closed at this stage.
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| Apr 28, 2018 at 18:33 | answer | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | rus9384 | @PeterJ, "Avoid answering questions in comments". | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 11:01 | comment | added | user20253 | @Rohith.- My comment was my answer. | |
| S Apr 27, 2018 at 23:53 | history | suggested | Eli Bashwinger |
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 17:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 16:10 | comment | added | Ask About Monica | One possible criterion is whether the philosophy is 'possibly true'. It doesn't self-contradict, and doesn't contradict what we know of reality. There'll be some people that argue with that, but we can safely ignore them, because they self-contradict :) | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 12:51 | answer | added | SonOfThought | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 12:49 | comment | added | Mr. Sigma. | @PeterJ Please answer. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | user20253 | You seem to be on the right track by comparing the coherence and explanatory reach of theories. Then there is elegance, parsimony, rigour, testability, provabability and other things. A crucial issue would also be profundity. A philosophical theory that is not fundamental is always going to be dubious and temporary, a castle in the air. I feel your criteria are correct but inadequate. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 12:13 | comment | added | BeingOfNothingness | I know that ontological and theoretical parsimony play a large role in how people determine their preference of philosophical theory. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 7:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 7:11 | comment | added | rus9384 | Then we need to distinguish some properties of them. In fact what I said is followed by current philosophic thoughts themselves but I don't agree with them. Instead I think hierarchy is built from the top down and not from the bottom up. But that would cross out almost whole philosophy, mathematics and so on. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 7:07 | history | edited | Mr. Sigma. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 7:07 | comment | added | Mr. Sigma. | @rus9384 What if we just want to compare two philosophies? | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 7:02 | comment | added | rus9384 | What does mean "better"? There are some you agree with in a greater degree and some with a smaller degree. In fact the problem is that if we define some measure for quality of philosophy through another philosophy P_1, we must measure the quality of P_1, adding P_2, P_3 and so on. Thus either we need to reject the notion of quality itself or define infinite hierarchy. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 6:56 | history | asked | Mr. Sigma. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |