From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: bill@cafe.net (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: Philosophers Date: 1998/01/24 Message-ID: <6abfi3$l71$1@brie.direct.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 318736279 References: <67et6o$dql@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: kaz@cafe.net Organization: Internet Direct Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bd284c$4b0b4fe0$c0f682c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>, Nick Roberts wrote: >I'm afraid I believe a great many people don't realise that philosophy is >the most 'hard core' field of study there is. As Russell put it, >philosophy is "accurate thinking", which is really exactly what computer >programming is. Give me a bunch of CS PhDs and a philosopher to employ, >and I'd have the philosopher every time. They are the only ones who are >actually taught to _think_ (I really mean this!). I'd take the CS person who minored in philosophy (or vice versa). There is a good deal of synergy between CS, mathematics and philosophy. They are all purely intellectual disciplines whose objective is to find the truth. In computer science, truth appears in many ways: one incarnation of truth appears in a correct design and implementation of something. At any decent school, at least, philosophy is far from the typical liberal arts twaddle with which it may be unfortunately associated by way of being part of the same faculty.