When I was doing my undergrad in biology the amount of my classmates dismiss philosophy as "soft humanities" or just "word play" is disheartening. For my humanities component of my grades I took all philosophy classes and I had a great time. It's a great crossover when Philosophy of Biology was offered.
The P in PhD is for Philosophy
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RandomStickman@kbin.run 11 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It’s not just the undergrads.
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a theoretical biologist.
The best book I read on multilevel selection theory was actually written by a professor of philosophy. The author broke down the individual concepts, as they do, so that anyone reading it knew exactly what each technical term referred to. Biology is my favorite subject because there’s so much that we’re still figuring out and it’s just ridiculously complex.
I might have had a similar hot take as an undergrad when everyone has an ego based on their major - and I was even a computer engineering student for awhile, and engineers tend to be even worse at that sort of thing.
Truffle@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I am not a biologist but could you please share the name and author of the book? Sounds liek something I’d enjoy TIA
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The Word Play criticism is probably based on Analytic Philosophy, which honestly does come off as a whole bunch of wankery from the outside.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 months ago
This meme is perfect, because that’s cat’s face is saying “I don’t know what is happening or why, but I’m determined to see this through to its conclusion”
douz0a0bouz@midwest.social 11 months ago
Oddly enough that feeling fits with the epistemology topic 😂
Asafum@feddit.nl 11 months ago
…wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy
I kinda love that this is a thing. All things lead to philosophy.
Haagel@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Descartes warned us but we didn’t listen
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Doesn’t Descartes’ maxim deal more with ontology than epistemology?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which is why he was trying to warn people about his enemies the epistemologists
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We discarded Descartes
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For Kierkegaard.
berryjam@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Eli5?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Epistemology asks what do we know and how do we know it. In other words, it’s the theory of knowledge.
Quick introduction: m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Y3utIeTPg
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s not where they cut the vagina and anus into a cloaca?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
And the h?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
for heckin’
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
PhD Philosophy Demonised
yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 11 months ago
I just assumed that the graduate has a Ph of D.
treesoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we assume hexadecimal, that is a pH of 13
yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 11 months ago
Mmmm sodium hydroxide. Basic.
10_0@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Physic
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Epistemology should be taught in primary school.
I mean that unironically. Learning about simple principles like non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit.
With AI distorting the internet in every capacity, virtually everyone needs a new norm of evaluating knowledge.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Epistemology, Logic, and Data Literacy fite me
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s exactly why its not taught.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It should be part of a rhetoric program. I didn’t learn anything in English class after the 3rd grade. Granted, I was considered gifted, but you have a lot of slack to put in philosophical foundations and logic.
geoff@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have taught my children Epistemology for this reason. It is THE key skill in the disinformation age.