• JackGreenEarth
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    284 months ago

    I’m not really familiar with what you’re referring to, but also, science is a philosophy. It’s a method of finding truth.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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        134 months ago

        This was one of the (smaller) things that put me off the idea of getting my Masters in biology. It was a very real thing in the college of science at my university.

        Though it was slightly different at the top for us. Mathematicians, astrophysicists, other theoretical physicists, and experimental physicists where all top of the college, but then they sub-layered themselves in that order. In the bio department Microbiologists were the top rank. But in our case it was because the Micro department held a couple patents that brought in big money.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 months ago

          Its all about money at the end of the day. For instance, the uni I attended is shutting down its entomology programme while continuing to pump large amounts of money into cell bio.

          • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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            My university really liked to tout its Carnegie 1 classification to bring in donor money, then instead of using that money to fund the research needed to maintain it they’d use it to pay off debts for athletics.

      • anar
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        24 months ago

        I would put philosophy in leftmost

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          4 months ago

          I would loop it with math going to philosophy going to sociology (with a bunch of things in between).

    • @Zehzin
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      224 months ago

      Science is just rebranded natural philosophy

  • @kaffiene
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    224 months ago

    As a philosophy grad, I appreciate this =) But philosophy gained a heap from Science too (probably more than v…v.) , so it’s all good. It strikes me as natural that Science will time to time have to engage in Philosophy when it considers its assumptions.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    214 months ago

    Remember, anything you “know” can be easily washed away with new information.

    • @FooBarrington
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      34 months ago

      Funnily enough, the fact that anything you “know” can be easily washed away with new information is an exception.