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Rationally Speaking #71 - On Science Fiction and Philosophy

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The Philosophy of Science

Science fiction is a good introduction to philosophy. It's not in the sense that you pick up a Philip Dick story and say oh wow I learned something about reality or but in the sense of okay that that was interesting now let me see what other people have written about that sort of stuff how did they dissect it? That goes for science philosophy as well as non-scholarly fields like biology, medicine etc. The themes are treated much more critically and classally than if they were just passively for entertainmentYeah exactly so and that goes and again that draws the panel with the primary philosophical literature itself.

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