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It contains Bertrand Russels 'History of Western Philosophy' which is far more relevant IMO - and gives a nice summary of Aristotle including the warning "he's kinda rubbish if you compare him to his reputation". By which he means, in several topics Aristotle is rather more enthusiastic, than coherent, precise or correct.
Marvin Minsky: "A lot of philosophy is just bad science ..."
I love Kay and you should absolutely read any of his recommendations or at least examine them with earnest. That said, I struggle to remember anything he's created or written that's moved the needle (my needle). I'm honestly not hating and I have way too much respect for him to say anything on this list is not worthwhile. But, in my experience, Kay has been one of those brilliant uncles who's (written) work never see…
> I struggle to remember anything he's created or written that's moved the needle Well he helped created the first computer networked workstations, practically invented Object Oriented Programming, created the concepts of overlapping window management... ... I struggle to think of what needle your trying to move that wouldn't be moved by any of those.
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It contains Bertrand Russels 'History of Western Philosophy' which is far more relevant IMO - and gives a nice summary of Aristotle including the warning "he's kinda rubbish if you compare him to his reputation". By which he means, in several topics Aristotle is rather more enthusiastic, than coherent, precise or correct.
Marvin Minsky: "A lot of philosophy is just bad science ..."
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Would you agree that there is no science without good philosophy?
I don't understand this question, but it sounds as though a good answer could be "yes" ... please say more ...
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I don't understand this question, but it sounds as though a good answer could be "yes" ... please say more ...
Ah if yes, then I have no more questions. Couldn't tell but it seemed like the comment "A lot of philosophy is just bad science ..." could have meant that science could somehow exist separately from philosophy.