How to Do Philosophy

Re:How to Do Philosophy by pg on Friday September 21, 2007 @08:49PM (#58216)

No, I meant that when you learn about e.g. the chemical elements, you don't also learn who discovered each of them. It's accepted knowledge; you're taught it as facts.

In philosophy, most of the exam questions have someone's name in them. E.g. "explain x's concept of y."

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Re:How to Do Philosophy by ced on Saturday September 22, 2007 @07:31AM (#58311)

I also had problems with the sentence, probably because it doesn't ring especially true. I can name the discoverer of most of what I know about physics, right from the names: Newtonian physics, Bohr's model, the Schrodinger equation, Euclidian geometry, Gaussian curves... E=Mc2...

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Re:How to Do Philosophy by euccastro on Saturday September 22, 2007 @11:22AM (#58339)

FWIW, I too got stuck at that sentence like nowhere else in the text; it took me some tries to macro-expand. Maybe your proofreaders got past it without blinking because they are more acquainted with that point?

(Although Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry are not really counterexamples.)

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Re:How to Do Philosophy by forgotmylastone on Saturday September 22, 2007 @06:11PM (#58405)

Einsteinium? (yes, I'm away Einstein didn't discover that =P)

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