Bruno Marchal writes:> > In any case, it is telling that even Parfit's philosophical > > adversaries do not focus on lack of scientific plausibility as an > > argument against *philosophical* validity. For the most part, he could > > have made the same points had he been writing a century ago, drawing > > on religious mythology rather than science fiction for his thought > > experiments.> > > > Perhaps a philosopher on the list could comment?> > > > Oops, sorry. But perhaps I am a philosopher too? After all Pythagoras > invented the term :)> In any case I agree with you. Thought experiment on soul and identity, > including what happens in case of duplication appears already > implicitly in Plotinus, and explicitly in Augustine.> > BrunoI feel I can intuitively recognise the difference between scientific statements and philosophical statements, but I don't think I've done a good job articulating this difference in recent posts. It's not just empirical versus theoretical, because I would say maths is more like what physicists or chemists do than what epistemologists or ethicists do, for example. Logic is an exception, claimed by both philosophers and mathematicians, but I understand that even here there is a difference in emphasis depending on the logician's background. Of course, "philosophy" was a generic term for multiple scholarly fields not so long ago, but I am talking about current usage. Can anyone pin down the distinction I'm looking for?Stathis Papaioannou
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