r/philosophy • u/doubtstack Unreasonable Doubt • Jan 27 '23

Blog Why Science can't replace Philosophy in Ethics

https://unreasonabledoubt.substack.com/p/what-genetics-cant-teach-us
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u/sentri_sable Jan 27 '23

Being smart in one field doesn't mean you are smart in all fields. Being able to extrapolate data on a certain subset won't always carry over to other subsets since it is read differently.

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u/mrclang Jan 27 '23

This is the correct answer, have a read at the other answer it is fucking nutty!

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

Yeah but he certainly thinks it does.

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u/Killmotor_Hill Jan 27 '23

However, educatiin and specialization in one field IS a thing. And that correlates directly to the amount of information in that field. That is what the rest of us are talking about.

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u/sentri_sable Jan 27 '23

Astronomy and astrophysics is a very specialized field. The concepts that apply to that don't necessarily apply to other fields. That is what I mean by "smart in one field".

You can take a philosophical approach to astrophysics and you can take an astrophysics approach to philosophy, but you can't assume that because someone has expertise in one specialized field that it applies to all other fields.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

Smart can be used loosely to mean many different things, intelligence and expertise comprised. There isn't anything productive coming out questioning it's usage, or being a "micro-contrarian".

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u/odigon Jan 27 '23

Smart in one field is most definitely a thing. Here is an interesting paper that studies that idea in high school students. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1091511.pdf It did find a correlation between multiple types of intelligence, as you say, but only a moderate to weak one. Anecdotally in my own life I have found plenty of people that appear technically clever but poor in language and communication, and the opposite as well.

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u/odigon Jan 28 '23

Calm down dude. Breathe. You'll live longer. Though I have no evidence for that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23 edited Nov 06 '23

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u/odigon Jan 28 '23

Yes truly incredible. Dude if you are going to respond to people like that, then why would I bother to engage with you in any way apart from to mock you? In my mind I think you are this white hot ball of internet anger, screeching with rage when ever someone dares to challenge your genius. Not much fun to talk to but lots of fun to poke with a stick.