Some people may have an uncomfortable feeling about the combination of “utility” and “philosophy,” but that discomfort is due to the mental model that “philosophy is useless,” and whether that mental model is correct or not We should be skeptical.

relevance - pragmatism - Definition of scholarship in the study of scholarship

What specific capabilities are useful?

  • Ability to create abstract models from concrete examples
  • Ability not to dance around abstract buzzwords
    • Relativization of correctness
    • Ability to understand the “rightness” of different people
    • Ability to use different definitions of “correctness” as needed
  • relativization of meaning of a word.
    • Ability to accept that words mean different things to different people
    • Ability to understand situations where words are not clearly defined

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