Peterdjones comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong
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It does. LP has been abandoned. So have many issues in Scholasticism.
True but irrelevant. Phil doens't have to work like other subjects.
Philosophical claims are often subtle and need to be interpreted in context together with the rest of their originator's body of work.
That's an opionion. How about putting forward some examples to show that pils. really are stupidly undersuing this manouvre.
That's an opinion. It could do with being backed by detailed work showing that phils really are stupidly overmphasing the ancients. On the other hand, it is perhaps motivated by an excessive tendendy to equate phil. with science. In science it is uncontroversial that the old stuff is probably wrong.
I have put forward the argument that it does not deal with the same sorts of questions, so it is, to say the least, not obvious that scientific techniques would work as well as LW's expect. if they can be shown to (as in experimental philosophy) I am happy with that. But Luke's claims are much more sweeping than piecemeal improvement.