[ithkuil]

A lot of good science can be done without much philosophy.

But you can't have good philosophy if you intentionally avoid science.

I regained respect in philosophy by reading the work of philosophers like Dan Dennet who break that unfortunate cliché where philosophy has been stuck to only ponder at the left-overs of science and instead embrace science and apply sound philosophical thinking to navigate the consequences of what we discovered about reality.

[mbivert]

> A lot of good science can be done without much philosophy.

> But you can't have good philosophy if you intentionally avoid science.

As always, it all depends on the definition of "philosophy" and "science". If it's the "love of wisdom" and "knowledge" respectively, then I doubt hardly anything of value can be produced without both philosophy and science; and philosophy should be of greater value (e.g. Socrates' "I know that I know nothing").