Apart from the view on philosophy as “cohesive stories that bind together and infuse meaning into scientific models”, which I discussed with you earlier and you was not very satisfied with, another interpretation of philosophy (natural phil, phil of science, phil of mathematics, and metaphil, at least) is “apex generalisation/abstraction”. Think Bengio’s “AI scientist”, but the GM should be even deeper to first sample a plausible “philosophy of science” given all the observations about the world up to the moment, then sample plausible scientific theory given the philosophy and all observations up to the moment on a specific level or coarse-graining/scientific abstraction (quantum, chemical, bio, physio, psycho, socio, etc.), then sample mechanistic model that describes the situation/system of interest at hand (e.g., a morphology of a particular organism, given the laws of biology, or morphology of the particular society), given the observations of the system up to the moment, and then finally sample plausible variables values that describe the particular situation at a particular point in time given all the above.
If this interpretation is correct, then doing philosophy well and not deluding ourselves is far off. And there is a huge risk in thinking we can do it well before we actually can.
Apart from the view on philosophy as “cohesive stories that bind together and infuse meaning into scientific models”, which I discussed with you earlier and you was not very satisfied with, another interpretation of philosophy (natural phil, phil of science, phil of mathematics, and metaphil, at least) is “apex generalisation/abstraction”. Think Bengio’s “AI scientist”, but the GM should be even deeper to first sample a plausible “philosophy of science” given all the observations about the world up to the moment, then sample plausible scientific theory given the philosophy and all observations up to the moment on a specific level or coarse-graining/scientific abstraction (quantum, chemical, bio, physio, psycho, socio, etc.), then sample mechanistic model that describes the situation/system of interest at hand (e.g., a morphology of a particular organism, given the laws of biology, or morphology of the particular society), given the observations of the system up to the moment, and then finally sample plausible variables values that describe the particular situation at a particular point in time given all the above.
If this interpretation is correct, then doing philosophy well and not deluding ourselves is far off. And there is a huge risk in thinking we can do it well before we actually can.