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anti-antiphilosophy

19 Oct 2024 - 30 Mar 2026
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    • See antiphilosophy. The arguments there for the most part pertain to philosophy as an academic discipline, but it is more than that. It is the universal heritage of thinking beings. And to the extent we have any sort of abstract conceptualization at all, we are philosophers.
    • Every software designer is a philosopher, a practical ontologist. This might make you blanche – maybe we shouldn't leave such an important tasks to these uncultured nerds – but it's the way things are, and probably instead we should train nerds to be better philosophers.
    • When I reflexively denigrate someone's philosophy as obviously wrong – that is obnoxious. Also not justified. I do not have access to the Ultimate Truth of Things. I have picked up a bad habit of pretending to, thanks to the arrogance of the science/tech world. That's scientism which I have no problem opposing. (Of course Meaningness who is hardly a scietimismist is often guilty of arrogance, so it's complicated).
    • With philosophy (with anything really) one should adopt a stance of intellectual charity, assume that these ideas make sense to the speaker and the first responsibility is to understand them, before smashing them to pieces.
    • Hm, also see Zero Introspection Mindset, that's just a particularly stupid and aggressive form of antiphilosophy, but it makes the whole enterprise suspect.