/lit/ - Literature

Now, the third part of this image, perhaps the most important one, that was never really added to it. Some facts about philosophers:

- Aristotle was sure women had fewer teeth, among many other visibly verifiable lies ,but it never occurred to him to test this. Anyone who still believes in deductive methods like this is quite likely subhuman in cognition, and many people in this board choose to do this over following inductive science literally because of internet memes.
- Kant was sure time is a priori, and got absolutely destroyed by Einstein later on.
- Get literally any book by Lacan, Deleuze and Guatarri, Baudrillard, etc, and you can find a bunch of actual literal nonsense completely failing to reproduce any aspect of reality, but people found entire areas of knowledge around this shit, because philosophy is literal wankery.
- The Sokal Affair is the absolute ultimate proof that humanities are finished and unnecessary in the current era. A scientist is capable of making up literal shit with the right key words and get accepted by peers in humanities, without questioning.

What you hate is the "I love science crowd", the bazzinga crowd, the pop-sci people, the dishonest bought out studies, etc etc. Scientists hate those too. But science is still the best, and only, tool ever created by mankind to explain reality. You could argue branches of philosophy were instrumental for the conception of science as we understand it, but this does not include all branches (certainly not the wankery frequently discussed here) and this doesn't mean either that philosophy hasn't been completely out-phased by now.

>>16695640
Because it isn't. Also you have no idea how much modern scientists scorn philosophy, even things like formal logic and philosophy of science.

>>16315350
It's always sad when someone invokes this image for reasons already posted a billion times, but I guess I'll point it out too:
People on the left side are not remembered by this metaphysical mumbo jumbo contributions. Schroedinger specifically was heavily mocked for his hindu bullshit speak. Physicists are known to try and find parallels to their work in poetry and ancient myths, but that doesn't mean the myths are correct. It's fun to read about eastern religions, but fun doesn't mean it's right.
Also, no one in the right side is an actively researching scientist or anyone who made a contribution of note to science. Try pic related, also a nobel prize winner who had massively negative views of philosophy and its bullshit.
Also again, even if by complete chance someone finds something poetic or interesting about religion, and that person is an award winning scientist, that still doesn't mean that religion can stand on its own or is more correct or even as correct as science.

But whatever, keep posting that image like it means something.

Why is it so rare for scientists/engineers to be interested in philosophy and literature? A lot of them are downright hostile towards it and proud of their ignorance.

Game. Set. Match. Tournament.
You must wonder why people only post that debunked bullshit image with Nye and Tyson instead of some good old Feynman quotes.

Also by him:
>Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Respond to this without sounding butthurt

>>11152452
>autistic philosophers thinking anyone of outside of the humanities gives a shit about them