TheAncientGeek comments on Philosophy professors fail on basic philosophy problems - Less Wrong Discussion
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Within their domains.
So when kahneman et al tested hard scientists foe presentation bias, they found them, out of the population, to be uniquely free from it? I don't recall hearing that result.
You are not comparing like with like. You are saying that science as a whole, over the long term, is able to correct it's biases, but you know perfectly well that in the short term, bad papers got published. Interviewing individual philosophers isnt comparable to the long term, en masse behaviour of science,
Even if it's too simple?
Consistency shouldn't be regarded as more important than correctness, in the sense that you check for consistency, and stop.
But the inconsistency isnt in the theory, and, in all likelihood, they are not .running off an explicit theory ITFP.