Timeline for How do academics in humanities such as philosophy apply mathematics or physics in their discipline?
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| Nov 11, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Nat | @StellaBiderman The US; I think that I mostly use "technical work" when talking in a business setting to hand-wavingly refer to the broad class of people who do STEM-related work, as business executives tend to see all such workers as "technical workers", in contrast to, say, managers, people who work in sales or with customers, manual laborers, etc.. (Just to link xkcd, business folks tend to see all such work as being qualitatively similar.) | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 21:17 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | @Nat What country are you from? Maybe this is a cultural barrier that’s causing my confusion. | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | Nat | @StellaBiderman I meant "technical work" to refer to applied knowledge, e.g. I'd consider Physics to be technical work because it applies knowledge to describe the universe. I'd meant to say that, when people apply their knowledge, they tend to gain a label other than "philosopher" based on how they apply it. | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 21:04 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | What do you mean by “technical work”? Many philosophers do do technical work, by any definition I’m familiar with. | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 20:42 | comment | added | Nat | @JeffE Oh, and to clarify, my point about "is not a philosopher" isn't meant as an insult to physicists (in case that's how it came off). My point was that we don't typically call physicists "philosophers", not that physicists can't do philosophy. I'd meant Einstein as a prime example of this - he was a great philosopher, but we don't call him a "philosopher". | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | Nat | @JeffE I'm not so into the personal insults thing. I mean, if you'd disagree, I'd love to hear your perspective on it. Just, if you're saying that citations are needed or accusing me of snobbery - not upset - just, what purpose does it serve, ya know? In all honesty, this is my understanding of the situation. If you have additional information that'd improve upon it, I'd be genuinely interested to hear what information you could provide. | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 19:42 | comment | added | JeffE | Anyone who can do both Physics and Philosophy is a physicist — [citation needed] Not everyone who can do physics does do physics. — is not a philosopher — [citation needed] Now you're just being a snob. | |
| Nov 11, 2017 at 18:03 | history | edited | Nat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2017 at 17:54 | history | answered | Nat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |