Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
by goatlover on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:17AM
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Only if you think philosophy of mind is the same thing as computer science. I would consider neuroscience and psychology to be more informative for questions about the mind.
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Re:Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
by YorkshireSeason on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:31AM
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No.
I am in awe of the empirical work in Neuroscience. The last few years have seen a "Cambrian Explosion" of new measurements. We can now measure live neurons at scale! I do think this work is also much more interesting than arm-chair thinking about the brain, consciousness, embodied cognition etc. However, as a working programmer/logician/foundations of maths person I'm in much better a position to compare and contrast formal work in my field with philosophers contribution than I can in neuroscience.