Re: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." (Whitehead)
- From: Curt Fischer <tentrillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:07:49 +0900
Marc Adler wrote:
there's this weird arrogance that deems that philosophy should be understandable to people who have never studied it, unlike mathematics, history, physics, and so on.
I guess it depends on what you meant by studied. But as a scientist, I feel it is my duty to explain what I do to the layman in terms he can understand. I went to a colloquium once by Cory Dean, the former science editor of the New York Times, and she said that scientists have an "affirmative obligation" to educate the public about their work and their knowledge.
Why shouldn't the same standard apply to philosophers?
-- Curt Fischer .
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