A thought about philosophy graduate school
In philosophy grad school, I had a professor insist that Zeno's paradox was worth taking seriously as a philosophical problem. There are two answers to that.
- Take a walk. Boom, done.
- Calculus. Or, at least, real analysis. It may have taken centuries of work, but it's done.
How much of philosophy today is solved math and science problems? I don't mean that we solved celestial mechanics, and a whole lot else. One way to think of philosophy is as the mother of the sciences. We used to know a lot less, so philosophers would think through a thing, and then a science would form and so that thing would no longer be a subject for philosophy.
Instead, what I mean is this: In the last few decades, have been solved problems that philosophers have not been clued in on?