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Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction

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The Negative Experience of Philosophy at University

Philosophy as an academic discipline, Gana is possibly the least respect of any subject that can be taken at university. Good philosophers include Popper. I did read a lot of good philosophy and found it interesting as an intellectual exercise or an intellectual puzzle so to speak. That kind of philosophy is like doing a crossword puzzle. It's just fun to do for some people. However, there was very little of practical use in many of the philosophers that I read. They were pretending to solve problems that were either not problems in the first place or hiding the problem behind a veneer of complicated language.

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