Please oh please make an MMORPG game out of this that requires accredited college credits in philosophy and science to level up. Please!
Question: If I am new to LW meetups and only about to begin grad school in philosophy, then will this meetup be "out of my league"?
I see you're point. Many philosophers still like reading and writing about dead people rather than looking to science for entertainment and answers. However, it is a hasty generalization to infer from this fact that "philosophy is a diseased discipline which spends much of its time debating definitions, ignoring relevant scientific results, and endlessly re-interpreting old dead guys who didn't know the slightest bit of 20th century science." And it is a bit myopic to think that your suggestion has not already been addressed by numerous instituti... (read more)