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RE: The Four Fruits of Philosophy - Why Philosophy is Still Useful in the Age of Science
That is a very interesting piece of text and I mostly agree with what you said.
I am really a bit astonished of people throwing away philosophy. It is, IMO, not incompatible with science at all and there is no problem of having both.
I believe there are at least four main fruits of philosophy: fruits of critical thinking, of scientific criticism, of ethical reasoning, and the fruits of wisdom.
Those are in addition things that are crucially missing today, especially in the young kids (including those undertaking scientific studies). You give other good examples in your post!
Very glad to find you agreeing with the post. There is a lot of enmity sometimes between the two branches of knowledge, actively cultivated by some popular thinkers, which has unfortunately created the word "scientism": as if we needed yet another term attacking science. Most popularizers of science are with philosophy: Dawkins talks often with Dennett and Harris, Sagan peppered all his books with astonishingly varied and learned quotes from philosophy to history to literature to poetry, etc. But then there's guys like Hawking who say philosophy is dead. I doubt they even studied it. The only real enemy of science is irrationalism, superstition, and things of that ilk, that are not amenable to disproof or argument.