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[Anonymous No.14081236]

Is modern philosophy dead? Most philosophy and psychology classes just cite and quote dead philosophers. Why are living philosophers rarely mentioned or praised?

[Anonymous No.14081245]

It's just statistics. There's just more material from dead philosophers than licing ones. Some also become "classics" and become widely read.

[Anonymous No.14081248]

You’ve never heard of the new wave of neo-fash philosophers because colleges are anti-white corporate marxist institutions that ban the great philosophers of our time like Milo because they hate free speech.

[Anonymous No.14081257]

>>14081248
>great philosophers of our time like Milo

kek

[Anonymous No.14081271]

>>14081248
>Milo
?

[Anonymous No.14081451]

>>14081236
It seems like this is happening in most fields. New scientific discoveries are no longer credited to certain names. It's like we're becoming a utopian collective.

[Anonymous No.14081464]

>>14081236
The last of a dying breed.

[Anonymous No.14081473]

>>14081236
we're definitely entering into the next era of history, an no post-modern isn't a real one. i wonder what it will be called though.

[Anonymous No.14081485]

>Most philosophy and psychology classes just cite and quote dead philosophers
???
maybe in 101 classes, but more advanced courses cover contemporary philosophers. Philosophy ages well anyway, so learning what the greatest minds of the past have said isn't a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.14081577]

>>14081236
what the fuck is modern philosophy

[Anonymous No.14081600]

>>14081236
Because science has superceded a majority of philosophical questions. Questions about the nature of man have been handed over to neuroscientists. Questions about the universe have been handed over to cosmologists and particle physicists. What's left for philosophers? Questions about ethics and society, mostly, and questions about the latter are being answered by people in a variety of other fields.

[Anonymous No.14081616]

>>14081600
Lol

[Anonymous No.14081629]

>>14081616
Good argument.

[Anonymous No.14081657]

>>14081236
>Why are living philosophers rarely mentioned or praised?
Oh anon. You are not privy to the actual inner workings of philosophy (and probably psychology too). We do read living philosophers, all the time, in the classes I've taken. They just don't usually show up in introductory courses and aren't known well outside the major. Analytics are especially ready to read living philosophers, they do it all the time.

[Anonymous No.14081670]

>>14081629
Thanks man

[Anonymous No.14081679]

>>14081600
Actually, all empirical experimentation has done is just verify the claims made by sages from the past. Conclusions drawn by sages are insights into reality as human beings experience it. Reason is what navigates this intellectual sphere. So to say science has done away with people spending exceptionally long periods of time reasoning out and synthesizing conceptualizations of the most optimal, is foolish. The plain truth is that "science" as you know has only been made possible by certain exponential leaps in technical sophistication, so it is only under the auspices of this new technocratic order can you say that science is answering what was already said before in an aphorism, in a verse, in an edda, etc.

[Anonymous No.14081688]

>>14081679
Can you give a few sourced examples of ye olde philosophers anticipating things science has confirmed? Can you demonstrate that said philosophers had came to the conclusions they did for the correct reasons?

[Anonymous No.14081751]

>>14081688
>Can you give a few sourced examples

No, I'd rather not. Though I knew if I googled it, I'd find something.

>Can you demonstrate that said philosophers had came to the conclusions they did for the correct reasons?

No, because I'm not omniscient and I can't bend space/time.

[Anonymous No.14083006]

>>14081688
Peirce anticipated special relativity, quantum indeterminacy, biosemiosis, and much more coming soon in evolution.

[Anonymous No.14083104]

>>14081236
How do you even become a philosopher? Do you just write about on your philosophy towards life? Economics? The human experience? Or do you have to preach it at "talks"? or do you have to become famous first? Do I have to have a degree in it? If I want to be a philosopher what do? This is a serous question

[Anonymous No.14083118]

>>14083104
Start with Peirce

[Anonymous No.14083121]

>>14081248
kek, 10/10

[Anonymous No.14083140]

>>14081236
Shitposting on imageboards is being a modern philosopher.

[Anonymous No.14083223]

>>14081600
>Questions about the nature of man have been handed over to neuroscientists.
Every time