I’ve been lurking on LW/OB for a while but thought I’d sign up. I’m currently doing a philosophy degree which you might expect would make me feel unwelcome on LW (which is often fairly anti-philosophy) but it’s actually really great to come across a group with a similar view about how to do philosophy as me—I tend to come across more interesting philosophy ideas here than I do in classes.
Welcome to Less Wrong! Don’t worry too much about our being anti-philosophy. We’re more against the common views held and methodologies used by philosophers than against the field itself. That is, the areas philosophy investigates are worth investigating; the bashing is reserved for the way philosophers go about it.
My comments before weren’t intended to reflect poorly on philosophy at my specific university. From what I can tell, they’re a good university for philosophy but I simply find a lot of philosophy to be of dubious value and my views on which philosophy is useful aligns to a reasonable extent with views expressed on LW. So despite the ability of this specific department I find that not all classes cover stuff that I find to be useful.
Hi,
I’ve been lurking on LW/OB for a while but thought I’d sign up. I’m currently doing a philosophy degree which you might expect would make me feel unwelcome on LW (which is often fairly anti-philosophy) but it’s actually really great to come across a group with a similar view about how to do philosophy as me—I tend to come across more interesting philosophy ideas here than I do in classes.
Anyway, just thought I’d say hello.
Welcome to Less Wrong! Don’t worry too much about our being anti-philosophy. We’re more against the common views held and methodologies used by philosophers than against the field itself. That is, the areas philosophy investigates are worth investigating; the bashing is reserved for the way philosophers go about it.
Thanks for the welcome.
And yes, my opinions re: philosophy are much the same so it seems like I’ll fit in fine.
at which school?
My comments before weren’t intended to reflect poorly on philosophy at my specific university. From what I can tell, they’re a good university for philosophy but I simply find a lot of philosophy to be of dubious value and my views on which philosophy is useful aligns to a reasonable extent with views expressed on LW. So despite the ability of this specific department I find that not all classes cover stuff that I find to be useful.
College in Australia = should be fun ;) Welcome to LW