Im doing philosophy wrong

[ShardMare]

There are thousands of mistakes a person can do when thinking, doing philosophy. There are traps i do daily which im not even aware. 

You too make mistakes. 

Is there a practical list somewhere mentioning the most common mistakes?

What do you think?

 

[NoSelfSelf]

Most common i see is self comfirming bias,not going deep enough,you get the point of basic level of understanding thinking you got it,not spenting enough time on one thing moving on to next,thinking that thinking and getting the insights is ultimate growth...

Edited March 11, 2023 by NoSelfSelf

[DocWatts]

Another one is Absolutizing a particular rule or principle, rather than trying to make good discernments about where a particular principle is situationally appropriate for a given purposive context.

Example: treating the concept of cultural relativity as an Absolute, rather than trying to articulate contexts in which relativity is an appropriate principle, and where it may be counter productive for a given goal.

In addition to that, failing to adequately account for the partiality of one's perspective is a huge pitfall. Likewise, failing to adequately understand the core assumptions one is using to understand something (most of the time they tend to be so self-evident and invisible we just experience them as "reality").

You'll also want to be able to clearly differentiate questions of epistemology (theory of knowledge, or how we know what we think we know) from questions of ontology (the pre-reflective and pre-linguistic ways that the world is disclosed to us owing to our physiological structure, cultural conditioning, etc).

Failing to adequately differentiate these two realms can lead to wasting one's time and effort investigating pseudo-problems that are a result of bad framing. Enlightenment era philosophy is unfortunately full of these pseudo-problems resulting from bad framing of a problem (such as the supposed 'mind-body problem', stemming from the dubious assumption that the mind is fundamentally disembodied).

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by DocWatts

[Leo Gura]

9 hours ago, ShardMare said:

Is there a practical list somewhere mentioning the most common mistakes?

Actualized.org is that list, hehe

[Osaid]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/introducing-pure-philosophy