MC Hammer is transcending rap with his philosophy takes.
Hammer, 58, caught the eye of Twitter’s philosophy community after the “U Can’t Touch This” rapper weighed in on a debate between science and philosophy. The tweet in question read, “Philosophy is flirtation with ideas. Science is commitment to truth.”
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You bore us. If science is a “commitment to truth” shall we site all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists ? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your Thinking and Consciousness. When you measure include the measurer. https://t.co/hsZzHNwJ0M
— MC HAMMER (@MCHammer) February 22, 2021
This notion is one Hammer strongly disputes.
“You bore us. If science is a ‘commitment to truth’ shall we site [sic] all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy… It’s Science + Philosophy,” Hammer wrote. “Elevate your Thinking and Consciousness. When you measure include the measurer.”
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His take on the matter elicited join from many online: “I cannot even describe how happy I am that MC Hammer is part of philosophy twitter.”
Forever more I am going to say "In the words of MC Hammer 'When you measure, include the measurer.'"
— Rose Eveleth ▷▷ (@roseveleth) February 22, 2021
"MC Hammer on Foucault" is like the title of an American Studies PhD seminar at NYU
— Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist (@thrasherxy) February 23, 2021
“When you measure include the measurer.” https://t.co/tHeoPXNGOP pic.twitter.com/IofZgrXCWg
— Thomas Worth (@ts_worth) February 23, 2021
Saw someone tweeting about history and philosophy of sci/tech with the handle mchammer and was like huh, I wonder how he managed to snag that handle.
It’s because it’s MC Hammer.
MC Hammer continues to be a legend apparently, for different reasons https://t.co/zNKp6M4awr
— Mar Hicks (@histoftech) February 23, 2021
So apparently I’m living in a version of the future I could never have imagined in the early 90s, where a device in my pocket allows me to watch MC Hammer defending the value of philosophy as an epistemic methodology.
Well… I guess we better sound the bell, school's in, sucker! https://t.co/9giTnmY072— Josh Melican (@jmmelican) February 23, 2021
You, sir, have brought some much-needed joy to science studies Twitter today.
— Audra J. Wolfe, PhD (@ColdWarScience) February 23, 2021
— MC HAMMER (@MCHammer) February 22, 2021
