[ExI] experimental philosophy

[William Flynn Wallace]

Dan   "merely just psychology"  ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:57 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> ​I am touchily territorial about psychology.  My colleagues have
> discovered an incredible number of things about the human mind and human
> behavior, and I want them to get the credit.
>
> A Nobel Prize was awarded in the 50s for the split brain research, which
> was all psychological after the actual surgery.  But of course there is no
> prize for psychology, so they gave it for medicine.
>
>
> Bill already responded on this; Nobel is kind of set up the way it is by
> the whim of its founder. Like Bill mentioned, there's no Nobel in math.
> (IIRC, Nobel didn't think math of practical import.:@)
>
> Now here's Kahneman and Tversky getting a Nobel for behavioral economics,
> which again should be in psychology because their work has implications far
> beyond​ economics (which isn't much a science anyway, but you can't blame
> the Nobel committee for that).  No question that their work deserves a
> Nobel.
>
> Now there's experimental philosophy trying to grab some of the limelight.
> Are we going to pick the psychology department apart and distribute its
> work to other departments?
>
> I applaud any good scientific work done with humans re psychology.  But to
> call it something other than psychology is just playing with words and
> taking credit where it isn't due.
>
>
> I'm not sure experimental philosophy is merely just psychology by other
> means. It's a rather new field and I see it as more a mashup between
> several concerns, only some of which seem to interface directly with
> psychology or with philosophy of mind. The basic idea in my understanding
> is to let more empirical methods inform the discussion. But this kind of
> presumes that all other philosophers are allergic to data, which seems to
> not be the case in my experience, especially not in philosophy of science
> or philosophy of mind.
>
> Forgive me if I'm exceeding post limits on this subject. I'll avoid
> posting again until tomorrow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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