I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically … - Rebecca Goldstein

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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Rebecca Goldstein

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

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