thomblake comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong
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But most of the really brilliant philosophers have come from a scientific background! For example, I don't think 20th-century philosophy would have accomplished nearly as much without Wittgenstein. And Aristotle wouldn't have gotten anywhere if he hadn't spent all those years cataloging plants and animals.