The idea of “correlation does not equal causation” allows me to find a better understanding of how things are connected. If you notice two phenomena often coincide, you might assume one causes the other. However, just as likely is that the two phenomena are each distinct effects of a common cause.
It’s sometimes just as likely to be completely unrelated coincidences.
Not just common cause, sometimes is just a coincidence. And every time someone doesn’t understand what “correlation does not imply causation” means, send him this site: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations first chart today is how the number of Google searches for “I can’t even” is directly correlated to the amount of yogurt consumption.
that you are making a big mistake to view the present or past events only from your current perspective.
I’m interested. Tell me more please! (Or help me with a keyword to search more about the tópicos, if you may)
Check the article on presentism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(historical_analysis)) and the part on moral judgements for example.
I disagreed with one of my Philosophy course instructors vehemently regarding religion and pushing religious views on others.
Due to my inability to “suck it up and shut up” during class, I was frequently at odds with the professor.
Due to that, my papers were graded more and more harshly. At the middle point of the semester, I had a D.
What my shitty professor taught me was that sometimes you just need to regurgitate what the person in power believes just to survive. I quit raising my hand or arguing during class, and I just word vomited his BS during assignments and tests. He smuggly thought he won me over to his views by the end of the course.
I walked with a B at the end of the course. After the final grades were official, the professor wanted me to join an advanced Philosophy course with him.
In some terms or another, I told him that I would not join the additonal course. I also mentioned that I felt that he used his lecturn as a pulpit to push his views on a younger generation. I told him that he didn’t have a convert, but he did teach me a lot on what not to be.
The Veil of Ignorance informs my political philosophy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
I studied philosophy. It helped me form my own worldview and ask the big questions most people ignore or let manipulators answer for them. It gives you freedom to have control over what you think. If you don’t figure it out for yourself, someone else out there would gladly do it for you in a way that serves them.
Plenty. Learning how to define and identify common fallacies is maybe the most immediate thing that comes to mind.
Being able to break down arguments into syllogisms in AEIO form. There are 256 distinct forms and 24 of them are valid logical statements.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_valid_argument_forms
Studying this topic in early university added a lot of value to my thinking process. Also software developers can relate intuitively. And yet, somehow surprisingly few people know how to break down their arguments in this way.
Cultivating and sharpening the ability to distinguish between what actually happened vs my (or others’) narrative about what happened is one of the more valuable tools I have acquired.
My philosophy class turned my vegan, no one else in the class was to my knowledge nor something I expected. But when discussing the social contract, it felt so arbitrary that I had a moral obligation to not harm humans but nothing for animals. Both of their suffering is understandable to me, so why is one permissible and the other forbidden?
Anyways, like 8 years ago now and still vegan. I’m very much not an “animal” or “nature” person. Just someone interested in philosophy and came across something that bothered me deeply. Obviously it was the most impactful class I have ever taken.
Took an intro.
Logical fallacies, which lead me to the informal ones. Those are highly useful in corporate settings. Suck cost, circular reasoning, and ought from an is.
Not every day but pretty much any time I hear or read someone say something about Kant or Hume I know that they are wrong and not bother. I would say the same about Plato but he doesn’t really have any modern apologists.
Yup, that logic class was one of the few classes outside of the career-related ones that I can say has had an attributable positive impact in my life nearly every month of my life since. It really should be taught somewhere in K-12.
I took philosophy and expected some logic. Was a big disappointment.
What is “ought from an is”?
The correct thing to do is what we are doing now because it is what we are doing now which is correct.
We OUGHT to do what IS.
It’s a sneaky fallacy.
I learned logical fallacies from Matt Dillahunty.
He definitely found a topic he loves to discuss.
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Harvard has made Sandel’s “Justice” course available online for free. Definitely worth a watch.
I also really liked his books. For me as an economist “What money can’t buy” and the “The Tyranny of Merit” were especially interesting because I had a moral philosophy background that was quite typical for economists and didn’t question my very market-centric ethos.
I didn’t major in it but took a few courses. I think just learning different frameworks to analyze situations is most helpful. When something in the world is complex, you at least have tools to approach an understanding of it.
Learned and use in which senses of the terms? 😜
sorry, couldn't resist!
Part of what I learned was to try to seek clarity in ideas before responding or elaborating, to minimize presumptions and try to provide relevant responses. Although often I still fumble about and respond clumsily and irrelevantly.
I do the same things. Half of my conversations with people is me first rephrasing everything they said to me to make sure I understood them correctly before I answer their question or address what they said. And I also always want to give relevant answers but find myself circling around them more than I’d like. I didn’t study philosophy tho.
I laughed at your joke, because as a scientist, my interactions with Philosphy are often concerned with epistemology and wobbly wobbly words.
Philosophy was part of our curiculum at school, it was only one term, but it did introduce the concept of philosophy to me.
And made me realize that I had been doing it for years before.
It made me realize the importance of reasoning and how to apply critical thinking.
Almost all philosophical conflicts boil down to people using slightly different definitions of a particular word. The trick is to find out which word it is, though, and it’s often not trivial.
