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lispertoday at 5:57 PM4 repliesview on HN

It doesn’t help that a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit.


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demilicioustoday at 6:09 PM

mind defending that? I suspect that opinion would only come from one who took philosophy 101 and stopped there. If all you took was philosophy 101, this sounds a lot more reasonable and runs right into the point made by the pos you just responded to

fasteriktoday at 6:50 PM

It really depends on what you mean by philosophy. Academic philosophy? Ancient philosophy? Pop philosophy? Self-help content?

For a list of topics that aren't bullshit, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good starting point.

https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

epguitoday at 6:34 PM

Well “a lot” in volume sure, but that feels unnecessarily (maybe ignorantly) dismissive of the core corpus of the field.

Find me any field in which there isn’t “a lot” of BS.

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