Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Stupid things philosophers hear

Here's a running list of things philosophers get annoyed at hearing from people not familiar with the subject. It might be a recurring theme for me to post in the future so add your own if you please.



-What is your personal philosophy of life?

-Can there be morality without god?


-Doesn't natural selection show that altruism is impossible?


-And my personal favorite for now is this (paraphrasing) response from an evolutionary psychologist to a philosopher on a video blog:

“Psychologists aren't concerned with the truth. We just want an accurate description of how the mind works.”


-Everything is just a state of mind.


-Also see the idiotic comments on the comments section of the New York Times' The Stone to these three articles (here, here and here).

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