--- CalTech physicist Sean Carrol sees philosophy as a method for interpreting science and for a deeper understanding of physical phenomena ---
In recent years, prominent scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye and Stephen Hawking have downplayed the importance of philosophy or even denigrated it. Carroll is not among this crowd.
"There are a lot of scientists and science promoters who have said not entirely complimentary things about philosophy, but that misses the point about what it's for," Carroll said in an interview. "The purpose of philosophy is not to be the handmaiden of science."
Though his Ph.D. is in physics, Carroll has a strong interest in philosophy as well, and minored in it in college. He sees philosophy as a method for interpreting science and for a deeper understanding of physical phenomena. He uses philosophical concepts such as causality, determinism and mind-body dualism to explore everything from the tiniest subatomic particles to the accelerating expansion of the universe -- as well as the role humans play somewhere in between.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/...,electromagnetism, gravity and nuclear forces.
No. Philosophy is not about explaining science.
That's not what Sean Carrol said.
Because he is a scientist. Why would I use a scientist to explain what another discipline is?!
So you disagree with Albert Einstein thinking about science philosophically.
Not sure I understand that sentence. Einstein can be philosophical about science, sure.
I will leave the strict definition of philosophy up to dictionaries and scholars.
I just chimed in because the interesting question to me is how philosophical thinking about causality, determinism, epistemology is a useful intellectual approach in science and other scholarly professions.
I will leave the strict definition of philosophy up to dictionaries and scholars.
I just chimed in because the interesting question to me is how philosophical thinking about causality, determinism, epistemology is a useful intellectual approach in science and other scholarly professions.
philosophy synonyms
beliefs, credo, faith, convictions, ideology, ideas, thinking, notions, theories, doctrine, tenets, values, principles, ethics, attitude, line, view, viewpoint, outlook, world view, school of thought
No mention of science. Philosophy is in close association with ethics, that's why it's down here with religion.
philosophy synonyms
beliefs, credo, faith, convictions, ideology, ideas, thinking, notions, theories, doctrine, tenets, values, principles, ethics, attitude, line, view, viewpoint, outlook, world view, school of thought
No mention of science. Philosophy is in close association with ethics, that's why it's down here with religion.
Agreed but the only metaphysics that holds up to science testing is precognition. Paranormal is beyond the scope of scientific understanding.Philosophy is not mostly ethics. It includes metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. And more.
Agreed but the only metaphysics that holds up to science testing is precognition. Paranormal is beyond the scope of scientific understanding.
Plato's Socrates said philosophy is the only true science. This was made in comparison to architecture, engineering, and art.Science is a relatively modern term which did not exist for the vast majority of written history.
What we call science today, was called natural philosophy prior to the mid 19th century.
Isaac Newton would have considered himself a natural philosopher. He would not even have recognized the word scientist.
Science tested metaphysics and precognition is the only field that held up to the scrutiny of science.You'll have to explain. What does metaphysics have to do with "precognition?"
Science tested metaphysics and precognition is the only field that held up to the scrutiny of science.