Colleagues often react with irritation or defiance when being invited to share more about how their work, beyond its scientifically technical perfection, position itself in the pursuit of democracy, or, justice. The usual response is:
I do science, I do not do philosophy.
Philosophy is the effort to discover the true, in the Aristotelian sense, of justice and utility; what is true about things that exist and the phenomena of the real world. Philosophy and science compliment each other- without each other, either or both err or become tyrannical.
Discovering the true in the world, the proclaimed nobble mission of journalism, but also science and philosophy, requires us to recognise that without our senses, we cannot experience or conceive the world. And although there are possibly things and phenomena outside of our capacities to sense and experience, and irrespectively of those, our realities can be quite different: [...]
