Which philosophy are you currently into?

Philosophy 101

Experimental philosophy - Bringing science back full circle to work on its parent. Because the most successful parts of philosophy have always been the parts that lead to objective actions. Objective actions can be measured and improved.

General semantics - All knowledge is provisional. Having someone claim absolute truth does not make the claim correct.

Pragmatism, because it makes sense and I like to keep it simple and straight forward.

Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own". LOL

Pragmatism originated in the United States during the latter quarter of the nineteenth century. Although it has significantly influenced non-philosophers—notably in the fields of law, education, politics, sociology, psychology, and literary criticism—this article deals with it only as a movement within philosophy.

The term “pragmatism” was first used in print to designate a philosophical outlook about a century ago when William James (1842-1910) pressed the word into service during an 1898 address entitled “Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results,” delivered at the University of California (Berkeley). James scrupulously swore, however, that the term had been coined almost three decades earlier by his compatriot and friend C. S. Peirce (1839-1914). (Peirce, eager to distinguish his doctrines from the views promulgated by James, later relabeled his own position “pragmaticism”—a name, he said, “ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers.”) The third major figure in the classical pragmatist pantheon is John Dewey (1859-1952), whose wide-ranging writings had considerable impact on American intellectual life for a half-century. After Dewey, however, pragmatism lost much of its momentum.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in pragmatism, with several high-profile philosophers exploring and selectively appropriating themes and ideas embedded in the rich tradition of Peirce, James, and Dewey. While the best-known and most controversial of these so-called “neo-pragmatists” is Richard Rorty, the following contemporary philosophers are often considered to be pragmatists: Hilary Putnam, Nicholas Rescher, Jürgen Habermas, Susan Haack, Robert Brandom, and Cornel West.

Which philosophy are you currently into?

~~~ Philosophy is 'original critical thought';

Critical Thinking

http://www.skepdic.com/ticriticalthinking.html

Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm

As opposed to the 'scholastic';

"..."philosophologists", a term coined by Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Lila") to denote people who study other people's philosophy but cannot do philosophy themselves. He also says that most people who consider themselves philosophers are actually philosophologists. The difference between a philosopher and a philosophologist is like the difference between an art and aesthetics; one does and the other studies what the other does and theorizes about it."

I am now in Yahoo Answers Philosophy Section.

I don't know what it is called or who proposes it, but a friend of mine turned me on to the idea of not making the world about me. Things that happen in the universe just happen people take actions for their own reasons. Very little outside of my own choices has anything to do with me.

I am espousing the philosophy of not taking the universe PERSONALLY.

My philosophical life style was living a life of always living the life of the young, like keep doing sports like I did as a kid & because of this I not only am still young looking, other's tell me I look 45, but I too can actively enjoy sports in my 70's. Have a nice day. Mike

Interested in Peter Sloterdijk, and in the mathematical aspects of Deleuze. The former for his resonance with Heidegger, and the latter for the assumptions made re form. Related: "Spheres;" also, "The Path of the Higher Self," "A Philosophy of Universality."

Existential nihilism. It's all about the balance (or lack thereof) between the meaninglessness of life and our very existence, yet being pragmatic and saying "true, but that doesn't matter.."; or in the words of Sartre, "existence precedes essence". As to your question of why, existential nihilism, if it's truly lived by, can drastically change every facet of your life.

I observe truth and my philosophy is based on only truth