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Luckily, some philosophy doesn't compete with the formal sciences because it operates outside of their remit; e.g. moral philosophy, political philosophy and epistemology. It is here that some meaningful work can still be done without fear of being empirically outgunned.


For better or worse science is encroaching there too, in to the study of morality at any rate. See http://www.amazon.com/The-Moral-Animal-Evolutionary-Psycholo... for example.




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