> Go sign up for a math/physics major, get a Ph.D. in one of those, get experience for some decades, and then see if you can formulate a clean, simple, solid philosophy for how it all should work! My guess is, even with all the background, you can't do it!
This is pretty laughable. Math/physics and philosophy may both involve logic, but they are so different. It's neither necessary nor sufficient to be good in one to do well in the other. I'm sorry you had a bad experience in your own philosophy classes, but I've found that understanding some of the basics of philosophy (utilitarianism, natural rights, etc.), have vastly helped me understand why people in the STEM fields are motivated to work on one project versus another.
The course prof suggested that a math prof teach the class.
That was ALL right there in my original post.
Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, just for you, as in my post and as here, the class was
Philosophy of Science
Understand now????
So, a local community college may be able to give you a remedial course in reading comprehension.
I'm sorry you are having so much trouble with simple reading.
Your response, ignoring
Philosophy of Science
is "laughable". You have insulted me and humiliated yourself.
I was torqued. I had big justification in being torqued: I was trying, trying to learn math, physics, and in general science. So, hearing about the course in
Philosophy of Science
I took a chance, signed up, spent the time and the MONEY, tried, and the result was that a math prof's view was "f'get about Wittgenstein" and a physics prof said to philosophize after a Ph.D. So, the course and Wittgenstein ripped me off, wasted my time and money. I was ripped off, had good justification to be torqued, and was.
Again, here I'm reporting what two of my profs said.
> I had big justification in being torqued: I was trying, trying to learn math, physics, and in general science. So, hearing about the course in Philosophy of Science I took a chance, signed up, spent the time and the MONEY, tried, and the result was [... not good].
If you want to learn math or physics, take a math or physics class. A "Philosophy of Science" class will not teach you that. Philosophy studies how people think, how they perceive things, how they organize their motivations ... i.e., why people do what they do. In a "Philosophy of Science" class, I'd expect to learn about why so many people think science is important, why many people feel a desire to learn or have curiosity, and the repercussions of this on the individual and society.
Again, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but it seems like you were trying to get something out of a class that it was never intended to give you.
This is pretty laughable. Math/physics and philosophy may both involve logic, but they are so different. It's neither necessary nor sufficient to be good in one to do well in the other. I'm sorry you had a bad experience in your own philosophy classes, but I've found that understanding some of the basics of philosophy (utilitarianism, natural rights, etc.), have vastly helped me understand why people in the STEM fields are motivated to work on one project versus another.