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From: mwhiten@v-wave.com (Mike Whiten)
Subject: Re: Philosophers
Date: 1998/01/24
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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!).

Philosophy is what scientists do in their spare time.  Actually,
this is true for philosophy grads... it's just that they have
a lot *more* spare time on their hands...