Hearing this interview with the philosopher Agustín Rayo, I would be interested to ask Professor Rayo about the relationship between philosophy and accuracy—Professor Goodman mentioned in another interview that people from non-scientific or statistical fields had a tendency to be surprised about her focus on accuracy in the realm of prediction, which lead me to wonder myself, particularly in this interview which interrogates questions of free will, and determinism, whether it is possible for accuracy as a quality to play into the development of philosophical thought. In terms of the interview, I think in many cases philosophy was used to complicate prediction frameworks, introducing ‘human’ elements or recognising their limitations in the realm of human behaviour. So my question is regarding the discipline of philosophy itself, which often feels like a journey that dialectically represents its destination in and of itself, and whether there can be a *cumulative* productive relationship between that philosophical journey and more empirical fields.
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