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Will you keep science out of philosophy classes, as a quid pro quo? Sorry, Red Zone, if I sound pedantic about this, but your point doesn't stack up for me on this. You can't keep science out of philosophy classes because science is part of epistemology, the study of what counts as knowledge and thus the root of western philosophy even before Aristotle. For example: I wasn't a witness to any of the sordid events involving Bill, Monica and a hapless cigar, yet I maintain I have reasonably certain knowledge as to the nature if not the precise sequence of those events--and also maintain I'd really rather not think about them, ugghhhh! Now, demonstrating the basis for my supposed knowledge here would be a textbook example of a problem in epistemology--technically (but not morally!) appropriate to a Philosophy 101 course... And I'm not too sure about quid pro quo calls here; surely there has already been too much 'political horse trading' in establishing our educational curricula?

Well what is commonly called 'science' today seems to carry on as the philosophy-which-must-be-right(-so-all-others-are-wrong). If it's going to claim the birthright to be the 500 lb. canary in all arenas of human thought, something's gotta give.