JonathanLivengood comments on Philosophy that can be "taken seriously by computer scientists" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JonathanLivengood 29 December 2011 01:22:34AM 1 point [-]

In your linked piece, you were talking about formal epistemology. Here you say "formal philosophy." Is that a typo, or do you think that formal epistemology exhausts formal philosophy? (I would hope not the latter, since lots of formal work gets done in philosophy outside epistemology!)

Comment author: lukeprog 29 December 2011 04:25:17AM 1 point [-]

Formal epistemology is a subfield within formal philosophy, probably the largest.

Comment author: JonathanLivengood 29 December 2011 06:13:42AM 0 points [-]

Larger than logic? Hmm ... maybe you're thinking about "formal philosophy" in a way that I am unfamiliar with.