Jayson_Virissimo comments on There's learned philosophers but not philosophical experts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 29 January 2012 01:18:19PM *  4 points [-]

I expect that if you were to poll philosophers as to what they are expert at, they would say evaluating the validity/inductive strength of arguments (but not necessarily the truth of the premises of said arguments). If not, it would probably be something along the lines of being able to reproduce and interpret the arguments of other philosophers.

Comment author: JonathanLivengood 30 January 2012 04:24:04PM 0 points [-]

Those are both good suggestions. I would add facility with generating imagined stories, thought experiments, and counter-examples.