{"id":3823,"date":"2021-08-18T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2021-10-24T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T20:52:26","slug":"why-doesnt-philosophy-progress-from-debate-to-consensus-aeon-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/08\/18\/why-doesnt-philosophy-progress-from-debate-to-consensus-aeon-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn\u2019t philosophy progress from debate to consensus? | Aeon Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/why-doesnt-philosophy-progress-from-debate-to-consensus\">Why doesn\u2019t philosophy progress from debate to consensus? | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"79h7s\" data-offset-key=\"foo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"foo-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"foo-0-0\">My first thought on this article was to be puzzled by the idea that Molyneux problem is not trivial. Surely any person handling and feeling a sphere will notice the continuous symmetry of that experience relative to rotations of position relative to the object whereas that of handling the cube is only discrete (one feels edges and corners at different positions depending on one&#8217;s orientation relative to the cube). And similarly. the visual experience of thesphere is the same from all directions but that of the cube is not. So why would anyone not immediately make the correct identification on first seeing and comparing the objects?(<strong>but see third comment below!!<\/strong>)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"79h7s\" data-offset-key=\"d9i6n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"d9i6n-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d9i6n-0-0\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"79h7s\" data-offset-key=\"7tg79-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"7tg79-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7tg79-0-0\">My thought on progress in philosophy is that once a question becomes sufficiently well defined for consensus to be possible it becomes, by definition, a question of what we now call science. What is now called &#8216;Philosophy&#8217; thus remains the domain where we try to come to grips with what is really meant by questions posed in the languages that we inherit from our almost pre-human ancestors with words like &#8220;should&#8221; and &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;why&#8221; which often express a mix of feelings that may vary from person to person and tribe to tribe.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Why doesn\u2019t philosophy progress from debate to consensus? | Aeon Essays My first thought on this article was to be puzzled by the idea that Molyneux problem is not trivial. Surely any person handling and feeling a sphere will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/08\/18\/why-doesnt-philosophy-progress-from-debate-to-consensus-aeon-essays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}