This seems like an unavoidable problem with professional psychoanalysts. But philosophers are, up to certain age at least, willing to change their minds. It could be targeted at the first few years of undergrad. I’ve seen people change from “the dead old guys” to good stuff. Just give them a chance! And a figure of high status (Bostrom and Russell come to mind) to be inspired by.
On the spirit of Viliam_Bur below here. I would strongly argue in favour of it being a new course, called “Philosophy Given Science”.
There is no way professional philosophers would learn all that Luke (and reality, because reality doesn’t care about your brains capacity to grasp what is necessary to undertake the Big questions) would like them to. Leave them the name “Philosophy”.
A new course would be great. “Given” somehow brings connotations of probability and Bayes, which is good.
Trouble: The Mega-course depends on having thousands of free hours to read several topics that take a semester each to teach. Probably the entire extention of the thing would span longer then a Medical course nowadays does. Except some very lucky philosophers/autodidacts like Luke, who have the discipline, cognitive capacity, time and resources to actually learn all that, nearly no one would be able to learn it all.
It sucks, when the problems set by nature and reality are not proportional to human cognition/nature/condition/capitalism/constraints.
EDIT: I have decided to tranform this comment into a post in discussion Complement Luke’s List. The post contains also the beggining of a list of philosophy that is consistent with what Luke posts here. His layer here (science) should precede, but not substitute, the philosophy layer being forged there (with recommendations by Bostrom, Dennett, Luke himself etc...)
This seems like an unavoidable problem with professional psychoanalysts. But philosophers are, up to certain age at least, willing to change their minds. It could be targeted at the first few years of undergrad. I’ve seen people change from “the dead old guys” to good stuff. Just give them a chance! And a figure of high status (Bostrom and Russell come to mind) to be inspired by.
On the spirit of Viliam_Bur below here. I would strongly argue in favour of it being a new course, called “Philosophy Given Science”.
There is no way professional philosophers would learn all that Luke (and reality, because reality doesn’t care about your brains capacity to grasp what is necessary to undertake the Big questions) would like them to. Leave them the name “Philosophy”.
A new course would be great. “Given” somehow brings connotations of probability and Bayes, which is good. Trouble: The Mega-course depends on having thousands of free hours to read several topics that take a semester each to teach. Probably the entire extention of the thing would span longer then a Medical course nowadays does. Except some very lucky philosophers/autodidacts like Luke, who have the discipline, cognitive capacity, time and resources to actually learn all that, nearly no one would be able to learn it all.
It sucks, when the problems set by nature and reality are not proportional to human cognition/nature/condition/capitalism/constraints.
EDIT: I have decided to tranform this comment into a post in discussion Complement Luke’s List. The post contains also the beggining of a list of philosophy that is consistent with what Luke posts here. His layer here (science) should precede, but not substitute, the philosophy layer being forged there (with recommendations by Bostrom, Dennett, Luke himself etc...)