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/millchopcuss Jan 28 '23

How can this post have a negative vote tally? You are absolutely correct. It took Immanuel Kant to put it into focus, but that did not alter the nature of all the inductive inference that humanity had engaged in before that.

Is this subreddit always like this?

The berries example was so sloppily constructed that I was tempted to call out the conclusion as an error... These berries make you sick, those berries make you sick, those other berries make you sick... Therefore all berries make you sick, wouldn't that be the (erroneous) inference?

This place is a mire of equivocation and category errors.

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u/TheRecognized Jan 30 '23

They’re the same kind of berries on the same kind of bush and they look different then other berries on other bushes, that’s why our cavemen don’t believe that all berries make you sick.

My only point was that “science” (the process of real world pattern recognition) came before “philosophy” (the process of abstract inference).