Philosophy, Not Science

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Even for those in the harder sciences, the necessity of becoming competent in social thinking and philosophical reasoning has never been more urgent. We live in an era of unprecedented tools—the first generation with the ability to fundamentally change what it means to be us—and those with the technological know-how also need to know why .

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Ludwig Wittgenstein | Footnotes to Plato | Wittgenstein's Relentless Honesty

as Antonio Garcia Martinez more colorfully put it in an episode of Moment of Zen:

“Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about Israel vs Palestine. Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about how to be a good father. Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about what’s the meaning of life.”

Reason provides poor answers to these questions, and so trying to determine what