Comment by abrau11 on 03/02/2025 at 14:56 UTC

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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 03, 2025

Proposition: Our philosophy training programs do not focus enough on real-world application of theories. (I'd also argue that we don't spend long enough on philosophy education, but that's a whole other exploration).

I'm taking this both from my own experience and some of my work with Kant.

• I used my MA and PhD electives to explore related hard and social science fields (poli sci, social psych, cogsci, etc.), and these heavily informed the kinds of arguments that were even plausible, let alone those that weren't worth considering.
• I'm referring to Kant's take on the interplay between the a priori and *Anschauung*, such that we have a need to engage with both in order to make progress toward moral knowledge.

The long and short of what I'm suggesting is that we should have more degree requirements around engaging with the sciences, including something like a capstone paper that aims at publication quality (or perhaps a practical project that can be defended on philosophical and scientific grounds?).

Full disclosure on my responses: I've been out of the game for about 3 years and I'm mostly interested in your thoughts/critiques/suggestions. I'm probably not going to be able to engage on high-level Kantian scholarship on a short turn-around like a reddit thread.

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