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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by wslh on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:12PM (#15279645)
> Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field.

Not sure what you are talking about. Godel and Turing demonstrating the limits of some systems are actually giving philosophy of science results. I don't see any bogus in their work.

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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:55AM (#15285738)
>Godel and Turing demonstrating the limits of some systems are actually giving philosophy of science results.

The Halting Problem doesn't really touch on phil-of-sci concerns, which are chiefly about how to do empirical reasoning correctly. You don't need to deductively solve deductively unsolvable problems to do empirical prediction and control correctly.

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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by hacking_again on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:44PM (#15279912)
Also consider Karl Popper's contributions towards the importance of falsifiability.
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