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1/ I& #39;ve been tweeting about philosophy quite a lot recently. Here are some reasons why I think it should be taught as a mainstream academic discipline in schools...
2/ Humanity is kind of in a rough place, the boat of civilization is rocking. The problems we face aren& #39;t technical issues that scientists can engineer our way out of, they are problems of values, ethics and organization. These are in the end, philosophical questions.
3/ Philosophy is intellectual humility writ-large. In a world where people seem incapable of recognizing that people who think differently to their group aren& #39;t a literal manifestation of the devil, it& #39;s quite useful to think about how little we can and do know about stuff.
4/ Less surety in moral judgements, obtained through recognizing just how limited our knowledge and intelligence is, should help us negotiate and choose the right problems to try and fix.
5/ You can& #39;t *measure* the value of philosophy outside of philosophy (a philosophy test). Learning philosophy should make you good at philosophizing, and that& #39;s good enough for me.
