Re: does capitalism like philosophy?

sirblob2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 schreef:
> On 2 jul, 13:22, Leon Hoeneveld <leonh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Paul Grieg schreef:
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>>> On Jul 2, 8:17 am, sirbl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>> or does it only like economics? cuz under capitalism only thing
>>>> philosophy departments seem to do is disappear.
>>> If there's a market for philosophy then capitalism can be said to like
>>> it. If philosophy departments are disappearing (where's your evidence
>>> for that?) then it is because the customers are not there.
>>> Professional academic philosophers are competing in an equal
>>> marketplace for students, and if they cannot attract as many students
>>> as (say) media studies departments then the failure is theirs, and
>>> they should be cast out to do philosophy on the dole (it might
>>> actually do the some good!)
>>> Read Bryan Magee's "Confessions" and you can see why Oxbridge
>>> universities philosophy departments failed to attract students in the
>>> past few decades, and deserved to die. I for one (intensely motivated
>>> to study *real* philosophy) decided to pursue physics & maths rather
>>> than get involved with 'classics wonks' who wouldn't know a quark from
>>> their backside and were only interested in trivial linguistic
>>> flapdoodle.
>> TLF doesn't have anything to do with Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logicus
>> Philosophicus, has it?
>>
>> Because then it should have been: tivial linguistic phlapdoodle.
> 
> what's witt's equivalent in the physics department?

What do you mean, im****tance, or tiviality?

A scientific philosopher, who used a lot of physics in his books, is 
f.i. Reichenbach, same time as W.