The design of philosophy is my claim that philosophy is a craft like design. Philosophical ideas are solutions to the design problems of their time and place, and if we do it properly, philosophy could matter to future technology the way design matters today. That's a big if.
How the word moved
The seed text is from August 2014, The Design of Philosophy, where I turned Descartes upside down and read his certainty as a design for his age. I kept reusing that text, in 2016, in 2023 and in Midwifing a Better World. I repeat myself, I know. Four days after the first essay I coined Epistry, and the whole line of thought leads there.
In my words
"If done properly, philosophy will be as important to future technology as design is today."
from The Design of Philosophy, 2 Aug 2014
"As long as philosophy is seen as a handmaiden to science, it’s destined to be meta butterfly collecting."
from The Design of Philosophy, 2 Aug 2014
Related
- Related Deshakala - Design, I said, is the science of Deshakala.
- Related Plausibility and Correctibility - That's the redesign of epistemology the essay proposed.
- Related Epistry - I coined it four days later.
- Related Epistron - Four years on, the slogan was that design replaces logic.
- Related Philopreneur - I reused the passage when I described the philopreneur.
- Related Design-Philosophy - That's the 2024 version.