the concept of “metaphilosophy” is so hopelessly broad [...] Relatedly, philosophy is incredibly ungrounded and epistemologically fraught. It is extremely hard to think about these
An example of a metaphilosophical question could be “Is the ungroundedness (etc) of philosophy inevitable or fixable”.
my belief that good philosophy should make you stronger, and this means that fmpov a lot of the work that would be most impactful for making progress on metaphilosophy does not look like (academic) philosophy, and looks more like “build effective institutions and learn interactively why this is hard” and “get better at many scientific/engineering disciplines and build working epistemology to learn faster
Well, if you could solve epistemology separately from.everything else, that would be great. But a lot of people have tried and failed. It’s not like noone is looking for foundations because no one wants them.
An example of a metaphilosophical question could be “Is the ungroundedness (etc) of philosophy inevitable or fixable”.
Well, if you could solve epistemology separately from.everything else, that would be great. But a lot of people have tried and failed. It’s not like noone is looking for foundations because no one wants them.