Thank you for taking the time to put this together. While I
   reserve judgement to say whether I would come up with the same
   list, I will nevertheless compliment yours. [I would find it
   difficult to come up with a similar list at present but
   eventually I expect to be able to]

   I appreciate the inclusion of "Science before Philosophy"
   greatly.

   The other day, I was speaking at length with somebody who is
   _very trained_ in Philosophy.... but was rather clueless (and
   admittedly so) with regards to Science. It made it _very
   difficult_ to speak to this person, as his foundations were
   Philosophy almost to the exclusion of all else and there lacked
   a certain balance.

   He saw all answers as within Philosophy and one needed to go
   nowhere else. While I'm sure that is possible to live
   comfortably within a single discipline for a life, nevertheless
   when it's to the exclusion of all else, I believe it can lead to
   a shortchanged outlook.

   I would bring up things that I thought of as basic Cognitive
   Psychology... and it seemed I was trying to wreck his entire
   world, bringing up something as simple as numerosity. I wasn't
   trying to destroy his world or turn the Pillars of Academia into
   a democracy without discernment and a planet without purpose...
   but I felt as if I was taking a cherished toy away from a
   toddler.

   I backed down a little and spoke on his terms more, which made
   the conversation flow more smoothly, before bringing up CogPsych
   topics again...

   So I especially appreciate the Science before Philosophy...
   because without a grounding in some commonly accepted Science
   knowledge and without availing yourself of some corrections
   capabilities that the Sciences can bring to an otherwise solid
   argument... I think it can be easy to float off into the
   stratosphere and one can lose the string of their red balloon
   quickly and not even see the ground coming...