Diego asked:

Are all genuine problems scientific? what is left for philosophers to do in a post modern age?

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A counter-question: are ANY genuine problems scientific? Once astrophysicists have nailed down the
Higgs Field, what's left for them to talk about? — Let me give you a hint you might like to ponder. At
this moment, a war is being fought in Iraq. Many people throughout the world disagree with the
decision of the US government to wage this war. Is this a problem? Surely it is! But what's it got to do
with science?

Jürgen Lawrenz

Sydney

Well, your first question itself raises a genuine a problem which does not appear to be scientific. It's
clearly not physics or chemistry or anything like that, is it?

It seems likely that only a philosophical answer could deliver a satisfactory response your question. It
therefore answers itself to an extent.

It is a point that is often missed that when people say things like "the only important truths are
scientific truths" they are not making a scientific statement but a philosophical one.

Such statements are sometimes said to be "pragmatically inconsistent" — i.e their assertion is
inconsistent with their being true.

John Sartoris