jarlstanker
jarlstanker
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Bio
I do science by day and philosophy by night.
My enthusiasm for philosophy arose during my student time, when a took a master's degree in physics and mathematics. The core and foundation of all sciences is the philosophy, like philosophy of nature. The few courses I had with the focus on philosophy was important and interesting, and later I've realised that the basic analytical methods and tools of philosophy is used everywhere. For example: Math is philosophy on quantitative concepts. I like analytical philosophy and try to apply a tidy chain of thoughts (preferably syllogisms) as often as I can, and to be accurate with definitions. In that way I dwell over the different truths one can establish through deduction in philosophy as well as mathematics.
I use the same hypothetico-deductive method in my philosophical study of world views, life and reality, as I use in my job as a physicist.
The first step is to establish a logically consistent theory (or world view). The second step is compare it with the experiences of mankind to find which of the many possible (consistent) world views that are coherent with our reality. It's like hypothesis testing in physics, where expected observations are deduced from axioms (fundamental assumptions in the theory), and then compared to empirical data to test if the mathematical description (physics theory) gives the same answer/result as the experiment. This is the hypothetico-deductive method, commonly used in nature sciences.
Analytical philosophy is my method to study paradigms.
I study descriptive laws and normative laws; physics and moral; what is and what ought to be. These are both essential for wisdom. The truth about these things will set you and others free. The way we discover these truths differ: the credibility and authority that teach us "what is" and "what ought" are totally different.
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