While I get your point and don’t necessarily disagree, I do think it’s important to give philosophy a little more credit. Philosophy was what eventually came up with the idea of proving your claims and providing evidence to back that up. Logic and the scientific method were the creations of philosophy. Math was originally a philosophy/religion/cult(the Cult of Pythagoras for one example)devoted to numbers and believing them to be the ultimate answer to the universes questions.
Philosophy is a soft science, sure, but it’s core teachings are fundamental for everything else.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
A PhD is a doctor of philosophy.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Indeed. But the sense of these words changed since they were adopted. Originally they just meant “teacher of general studies”.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I like to think that they evolved in parallel, as Philosophy underpins all interpretations.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve tried explaining this to people, and they just don’t get it. They say philosophy is just some pointless, meaningless, armchair activity. I tell them, “All fields of study are a subdiscipline of philosophy” and they call me a misinformed idiot.
Like, dude, whatever you study, the field itself wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t firet developed by philosophers upon a philosophical foundation that was in turn developed by generations of philosophers.
The history of philosophy is the history of human ideas and of humanity itself. All of the sciences, both hard and soft, are simply highly specialized fields of philosophy.