When Philosophy Lost Its Way. Why are so many smart people such idiots about philosophy? There’s no doubt that Bill Nye “the Science Guy” is extremely intelligent. But it seems that, when it comes to philosophy, he’s completely in the dark. The beloved American science educator and TV personality posted a video last week where he responded to a question from a philosophy undergrad about whether philosophy is a “meaningless topic.” The video, which made the entire US philosophy community collectively choke on its morning espresso, is hard to watch, because most of Nye’s statements are wrong. Not just kinda wrong, but deeply, ludicrously wrong. He merges together questions of consciousness and reality as though they’re one and the same topic, and completely misconstrues Descartes’ argument “I think, therefore I am”—to mention just two of many examples.
And Nye—arguably America’s favorite “edutainer”—is not the only popular scientist saying “meh” to the entire centuries-old discipline. “It often gets back to this question: What is the nature of consciousness?” Browse Videos | Philosophical Installations. Output of the project - The Roots of Deduction. Mark Alfano and Abrol Fairweather « Philosophy TV. January 15th, 2012 Mark Alfano (left) and Abrol Fairweather (right) on virtue epistemology. A long line of virtue ethicists believe that we need to understand the moral virtues—courage, benevolence, temperance, etc.
—in order to address core questions in moral philosophy. Lately, there has been a surge of interest in virtue epistmeology, which holds that core questions in epistemology should be addressed in terms of epistemic virtues. Related works by Alfano: “Extending the Situationist Challenge to Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology” (forthcoming) “Explaining Away Intuitions About Traits: Why Virtue Ethics Seems Plausible (Even if it Isn’t)” (2010) by Fairweather: “Duhem-Quine Virtue Epistemology” (forthcoming) “The Epistemic Value of Good Sense” (forthcoming)“Epistemic Motivation” in Fairweather and Zagzebski (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility (2001)
Epistheo.com – Philosophie & Théologie Chrétienne. Amartya Sen, la pauvreté comme absence de capacité. L’apport du prix Nobel d’économie a-t-il influé sur les politiques ? Projet - Les thèses d’A. Sen sur la capabilité, sur l’intégration des aspirations individuelles dans les logiques de développement, ont-elles contribué à modifier les réflexions des économistes ? Christian de Boissieu – Depuis fort longtemps, Sen travaille sur les façons de réconcilier deux objectifs souvent disjoints : l’efficacité économique et la justice sociale. Ses premiers travaux, très techniques, s’inscrivaient dans le prolongement de ceux d’un autre prix Nobel, l’économiste américain Kenneth Arrow. Pierre Jacquet – Amartya Sen conteste les visions réductrices de la pauvreté uniquement fondées sur l’observation du niveau et de l’évolution du revenu par habitant des différents pays. Contrairement à la grande tradition du XIXe siècle, les économistes de la seconde moitié du XXe se sont largement retirés de l’analyse des choix sociaux et de la théorie de la justice.
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