Curt Doolittle

Category: Epistemology and Method

  • Good Philosophers Matter

    GOOD PHILOSOPHERS MATTER [S]o, as evidence of the importance of philosophers – at least the scientific kind – the failure of the western culture in the 20th century was due to the failure of the western thinkers to solve the problem of truthfulness that would have ended the combination of democracy and pseudoscience in the present era, just as philosophers failed to defeat the combination of immigration of third worlders, ignorance of women, transportation, writing, and mysticism in the ancient world. WE MATTER. GOOD AND BAD. WE MATTER

  • Good Philosophers Matter

    GOOD PHILOSOPHERS MATTER [S]o, as evidence of the importance of philosophers – at least the scientific kind – the failure of the western culture in the 20th century was due to the failure of the western thinkers to solve the problem of truthfulness that would have ended the combination of democracy and pseudoscience in the present era, just as philosophers failed to defeat the combination of immigration of third worlders, ignorance of women, transportation, writing, and mysticism in the ancient world. WE MATTER. GOOD AND BAD. WE MATTER

  • Suggestion both Informs and Deceives

    WE ARE BOTH INFORMED AND DECEIVED BY SUGGESTION [W]e should not be surprised, if experience is transferred by the process of using names of properties by means of suggestion, that those who would master deception would do so by the same process of suggestion. Meaning, that one can seek to inform or to deceive by the same means. And that some of us should specialize in the suggestion of truth, some in the suggestion of honesty, some in the suggestion of error, and some in the suggestion of falsehood, should not surprise us. What should surprise us is how willingly susceptible to suggestion we humans are if suggestion confirms our natural cognitive or moral biases. Nor should it surprise us if others develop specialization in suggestions that invoke our moral biases.

  • Suggestion both Informs and Deceives

    WE ARE BOTH INFORMED AND DECEIVED BY SUGGESTION [W]e should not be surprised, if experience is transferred by the process of using names of properties by means of suggestion, that those who would master deception would do so by the same process of suggestion. Meaning, that one can seek to inform or to deceive by the same means. And that some of us should specialize in the suggestion of truth, some in the suggestion of honesty, some in the suggestion of error, and some in the suggestion of falsehood, should not surprise us. What should surprise us is how willingly susceptible to suggestion we humans are if suggestion confirms our natural cognitive or moral biases. Nor should it surprise us if others develop specialization in suggestions that invoke our moral biases.

  • Render Unto Caesar …

    God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science

  • Render Unto Caesar …

    God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wisdom / Criticism Preference / Necessity Cooperation / Conflict Ambition / Constraint Literature / Science

  • THE PROBLEM OF CONFLATIONARY LITERATURE 1) Testimony –> Science -> LITERATURE <

    THE PROBLEM OF CONFLATIONARY LITERATURE

    1) Testimony –> Science -> LITERATURE <– Propaganda <— Lie

    2) Quality, Meritocracy, Eugenia –> <– Dysgenia, Mediocracy, Quantity

    3) (Aristotelians) Evolution –> <— Devolution (Muslims)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-24 02:52:00 UTC

  • God / Caesar. Pedagogy / Law. Experience / Truth. Creativity / Decidability. Wis

    God / Caesar.

    Pedagogy / Law.

    Experience / Truth.

    Creativity / Decidability.

    Wisdom / Criticism

    Preference / Necessity

    Cooperation / Conflict

    Ambition / Constraint

    Literature / Science

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-24 01:33:00 UTC

  • Crisis? Because of the pseudosciences of the 19th century and the failure of 20t

    Crisis? Because of the pseudosciences of the 19th century and the failure of 20th century philosophers to define Science=Testimony.#NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-21 11:32:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/723112198441062400

  • Economics: Math, Physics, Engineering, Econ, Law are specialties. A philosopher

    Economics: Math, Physics, Engineering, Econ, Law are specialties. A philosopher specializes in Truth. Truth Trumps All. Sorry. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-21 10:55:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/723102930308468736