Re: What should schools teach (e.g. _Pandas_) ?

John B. Tant (jtant@exis.net)
Thu, 9 May 1996 10:55:09 -0400

Bill,
I wholeheartedly agree. I wish I'd been required to take something
besides Phil 101. It seems to me that every discipline has a philosophy
by which it operates and is (somewhat) unique to that discipline. Its
potential practitioners should know what it is.

jbt

At 10:51 AM 5/8/96 -0400, Bill Hamilton wrote:
>I see no reason for keeping philosophical arguments out of the science
>curriculum, and many for including them. However, philosophy should be
>clearly labelled as philosophy. I would go so far as to say that I'd favor
>requiring all degree candidates in science fields to take a sequence of
>courses in philosophy of science.
>