Daniel Dennett - Why Philosophy of Science?

Science is humankind's magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to reject errors and myths. But how to understand the scientific method itself and what is it really that science is learning?

[noseefood]

he looks just like darwin. coincidence?

[nicolasruiz]

I would say that the errors that he is taking in to mind, are just bad interpretations of what philosophers have said. The problem is maybe the way scientists materially think, that is to say, starting from papers and articles. As they have to judge ideas through a very specific format, all their metaphors and all their thinking makes them believe every idea has to look as if written in the same format.

[romanszefler]

What's a product of apple trees ?
Leafs, oxygen, you pick

[rollinolson]

Yeah, everybody knows about the philosophical problems of dealing with consciousness.
What does Daniel Bennett think of string theory? (Hint: I get the impression that it fulfills a lot of the criteria for pseudoscience.)

[JesseOcoly]

Awww 🤗they're copying their role models, k so we've Einstein and Plato,

[kittykuchi]

I have a prediction which I think works as a general rule of thumb - That is, anyone who criticizes Dennett for not being a good philosopher, for not believing in consciousness or god or beliefs or his own selfhood, is either a theist or someone who has barely read or studied any of the relevant analytic philosophy (though most likely a combination of both).

[deepakkapurvirtualclass]

Let's go in distant future. Let's assume that Science has discovered all the fundamental particles/concepts that explain this universe completely.


I think..


1. These fundamental particles/concepts will have to be taken as a 'given' (with no further explanation possible).


2. This is the ultimate future of science...to reach at something, which has to be taken as a 'given'.

[RickyPayaso]

Made me think about how consciousness had evolved to serve our purposes. Very interesting... Shame there is so much hate for Dennet from utube hacks

[springinfialta]

So basically everyone that disagrees with Dennett is a bad philosopher. What an ego!

[dlbattle]

Bad example; for the most part apples are the only product of modern apple trees, because they are all clones of a handful of apple trees that make good tasting apples, and unusable seeds. But I get the point.

[Joshua-dcbs]

Dennett doesn't even believe in his own beliefs.

[theophilus]

Dennett is enough of a philosopher to know _what_ a philosophical mistake is, and (unlike many scientists and others) _when_ a philosophical mistake is being made - except, alas, when _he_ is making such a mistake.

One could be a full-bodied, red blooded, die cast, utterly unrepentent Cartesian dualist about consciousness and brain and not be in the least guilty of thinking that there must be a 'place' in which the "show" happens. Descartes himself would be one such. The real philosophical problem about consciousness, especially for any form of materialism, is how there can be a 'show' at all.

[relevants]

Before you judge if I ask right question, , , give me an intelligent answer.

[ericday]

The more I listen to Dennett the more I am convinced he is not really intelligent. He calls consciousness a trick of the mind, a trick, WOW.

[ericday]

The more I listen to Dennett the more I am convinced he is not really intelligent. He calls consciousness a trick of the mind, a trick, WOW.

[hardcorgamer]

philosophers have higher IQ than and that's not Dennett, Dennett is a poor thinker who believe he himself is an illusion