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Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.
Mario Bunge / Philosopher
Criticism
Stupid
Wicked
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Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.
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Deviants
Philosophy
Subversive
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Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.
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Jobs
Conservative
Philosopher
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Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.
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Courses
Remains
Research
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Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.
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Technology
Knows
Order
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The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.
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Chaos
Justice
Motto
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Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
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Moral
Shows
Social
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All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.
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Boundaries
Patriotic
Philosophy
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It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.
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Duty
Free Education
Giving
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Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.
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Free Yourself
Law
Nervous
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From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
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Historical
Political
Tools
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There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.
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Philosophy
Practice
Should
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I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.
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Believe
Brain
Support
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Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.
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Communication
Collaboration
Fighting
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All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.
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Hypocrite
Joining
Liars
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In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.
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Teacher
Community
Musical
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One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
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Belief
Believe
Should
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In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.
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Believe
Philosophy
Thinking
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All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
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Communication
Serious
Study
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A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.
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Belief
Racism
States
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The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.
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Enlightenment
Important
Political
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To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on holidays. Moreover, that's when new projects occur to me: while contemplating beautiful landscapes or seascapes.
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Beautiful
Hobbies
Holiday
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Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.
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Helping
Media
Philosophy
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A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.
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Ideas
Painful
Religious
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Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.
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Example
Mind
Philosophical
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I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.
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Ignorant
Philosophy
Views
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It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.
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Light
Moving
World
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I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.
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Baby
Children
Mother
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One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.
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And Love
Normal
Taste
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Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.
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War
Political
Racism
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Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.
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Philosophy
Political
Pseudoscience
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Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.
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Democracy
Groups
Legal System
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My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.
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Ice
Reality
Roots
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We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.
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Goal
Social Values
Wish
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Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.
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Ideas
Independent
Roots
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