What is philosophy (joke)

Akrasia

Here is the Entry about philosophy in uncyclopedia.org

Philosophy is a psychological disorder that causes people to endlessly ponder the inane, the improvable, and the pointless rather than go out and get a job. It is classified under obsessive/compulsive disorders in the American Assoc. Catalog of Psychic Disassociative Disorders, DSM 5 (Volume IIIV pg. 1546, section 172, lines 45-21). Someone studying philosophy or proficient in philosophy is called a bumblehead. It is not to be confused with Filosophy, an unusual infatuation or intense craving for dough.

The purpose of studying philosophy is to disprove your religion, your scientific methodology, the laws of your entire civilization, your ethics, and the existence of that chair you're sitting on (although not convincingly enough as to make you feel you have to stand up). Bonus points are awarded for disproving that you disproved it.

Philosophy has avoided adopting either a purpose or a method, and therefore it is immune to most criticism, since you can never point out that it failed to reach its goal or work as advertised. If you are foolish enough to try to criticize philosophy anyway, your statements will simply become absorbed into the morass as yet another branch of philosophy.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

DadaKopf

Wilfrid Sellars (philosopher):

The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.

FionnMatthew

DadaKopf wrote:

Wilfrid Sellars (philosopher):

Were you at the Putnam conference in UCD too?

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