Did people in 1711 classify their work into “Math, Phys, Chem, Bio, and Phil”? What if ideas that we call Philosophy now are a subset of what someone in 1711 would be working on?
They wouldn’t classify their work that way, and in fact I thought that was the whole point of surveying these other fields. Like, for example, a question for philosophers in the 1600s is now a question for biologists, and that’s why we have to survey biologists to find out if it was resolved.
Did people in 1711 classify their work into “Math, Phys, Chem, Bio, and Phil”? What if ideas that we call Philosophy now are a subset of what someone in 1711 would be working on?
They wouldn’t classify their work that way, and in fact I thought that was the whole point of surveying these other fields. Like, for example, a question for philosophers in the 1600s is now a question for biologists, and that’s why we have to survey biologists to find out if it was resolved.