Materialism Ought to be Judged as Much by the Ignorance It Demands as by the Knowledge It Purports to Afford

A contemporary phenomenon worth noting is the persistent denial of the relevance of philosophy by prominent materialists. It has almost become a rite of initiation for scientific materialists to deny the relevance of philosophical inquiry and assert the almost limitless insight on offer from natural science.

Harvard evolutionary biologist and leading ant expert E.O.Wilson (as I noted yesterday).

I like to say that most of philosophy, which is a declining and highly endangered academic specie...