“I enjoy the collection of topics while smart people are talking about it. Still at times I want to scream at my screen for their logical fallacies.
In episode 20 they talked about empirical “morality”, but dismissed it with the thought, that data was required to determine how to maximize well being. -Which is also empirical...
Another episode about expertise, they discussed the expertise of a philosopher. -It wasn’t unbiased as everyone wants to attribute some skill to him/herself. In my eyes, a philosopher has no expertise other than training in mathematical logic and training in thought experiments. -I am not dismissing the usefulness of that knowledge. But I am questioning whether there is any actual expertise or it is an expertise about expertise and co.”
Gang * via Apple Podcasts ·
Germany ·
04/18/21