[ExI] Why Physics Needs Philosophy

[Giulio Prisco]

And philosophy needs physics.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/physics-needs-philosophy/
>
> The payoff:
>
> "What philosophy offers to science, then, is not mystical ideas but
> meticulous method. Philosophical skepticism focuses attention on the
> conceptual weak points in theories and in arguments. It encourages
> exploration of alternative explanations and new theoretical approaches.
> Philosophers obsess over subtle ambiguities of language and over what
> follows from what. When the foundations of a discipline are secure this may
> be counter-productive: just get on with the job to be done! But where secure
> foundations (or new foundations) are needed, critical scrutiny can suggest
> the way forward. The search for ways to marry quantum theory with general
> relativity would surely benefit from precisely articulated accounts of the
> foundational concepts of these theories, even if only to suggest what must
> be altered or abandoned."
>
> Note: no mention of Mortimer Adler here. I wonder why?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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