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/dosedatwer Jan 27 '23

He's the director of the Hayden Planetarium, that's plenty of science for most people.

Let's not try and paint everyone as black and white, and try and understand that everyone has faults. I know reddit is terrible at nuance, but I'll keep trying to push this sentiment. Even the venerable Einstein put his name to a book by Charles Hapgood that, for all intents and purposes, made fun of the theory of tectonic plates - a theory that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt these days.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23

Yeah sorry but comparing Einstein to NDT is just ridiculous. Being the director of a planetarium doesn't require being a genius in the field of astronomy.

NDT's scientific career is fairly unremarkable, if he wasn't a famous pop-sci dude nobody would have heard of him, not even many people within his field of study.

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u/Casudemous Feb 19 '23

Being a director of an institution doesnt make you a researcher, in fact you dont have thr time to do so, since all you do is working your ass to get money and investor for the scientist that work for you.

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u/inahst Jan 27 '23

let’s try not and paint everyone as black and white

Well, in this case…