Physicists Are Philosophers, Too

[Daylight63]

Physicists Are Philosophers, Too​

- In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics -

In September 2010 physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow published a shot heard round the world—and not just the academic world. On the first page of their book, The Grand Design, they wrote: “Philosophy is dead” because “philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”

The questions that philosophy is no longer capable of handling (if it ever was) include: How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator? According to Hawking and Mlodinow, only scientists—not philosophers—can provide the answers.

The noted physicist and public intellectual Victor Stenger worked with two co-authors to pen an article for Scientific American. In it Stenger and co-authors address the latest eruption of a long-standing historic feud, an argument between physicists and philosophers about the nature of their disciplines and the limits of science. Can instruments and experiments (or pure reason and theoretical models) ever reveal the ultimate nature of reality? Does the modern triumph of physics make philosophy obsolete? What philosophy, if any, could modern theoretical physicists be said to possess? Stenger and his co-authors introduce and address all these profound questions in this thoughtful essay and seek to mend the growing schism between these two great schools of thought. When physicists make claims about the universe, Stenger writes, they are also engaging in a grand philosophical tradition that dates back thousands of years. Inescapably, physicists are philosophers, too.



This article, Stenger’s last, appears in full below.

Physicists Are Philosophers, Too

In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics

www.scientificamerican.com

How about "in your own words"? Or does that only apply to OTHER posters?

 

[Daylight63]

As much as I like philosophy, it takes a distant back seat to science, religion, and literature as the systems that fuel human knowledge.

So why do you studiously avoid and denigrate the science that was presented in the discussion of morality and consciousness?

 

[Cypress]

How about "in your own words"? Or does that only apply to OTHER posters?

You post science papers you Googled without reading them.

I read every article I post, and then comment on it extensively through the thread.

 

[Cypress]

So why do you studiously avoid and denigrate the science that was presented in the discussion of morality and consciousness?

Perry, you've been angry ever since the day I demonstrated you hadn't read your own science paper and that the paper's conclusions actually supported what I've always been saying.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Physicists Are Philosophers, Too​

- In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics -

In September 2010 physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow published a shot heard round the world—and not just the academic world. On the first page of their book, The Grand Design, they wrote: “Philosophy is dead” because “philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”

The questions that philosophy is no longer capable of handling (if it ever was) include: How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator? According to Hawking and Mlodinow, only scientists—not philosophers—can provide the answers.

The noted physicist and public intellectual Victor Stenger worked with two co-authors to pen an article for Scientific American. In it Stenger and co-authors address the latest eruption of a long-standing historic feud, an argument between physicists and philosophers about the nature of their disciplines and the limits of science. Can instruments and experiments (or pure reason and theoretical models) ever reveal the ultimate nature of reality? Does the modern triumph of physics make philosophy obsolete? What philosophy, if any, could modern theoretical physicists be said to possess? Stenger and his co-authors introduce and address all these profound questions in this thoughtful essay and seek to mend the growing schism between these two great schools of thought. When physicists make claims about the universe, Stenger writes, they are also engaging in a grand philosophical tradition that dates back thousands of years. Inescapably, physicists are philosophers, too.



This article, Stenger’s last, appears in full below.

Physicists Are Philosophers, Too

In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics

www.scientificamerican.com

stupid.

more evidence of masonic inspired scientism.

 

[Daylight63]

You post science papers you Googled without reading them.

I read every article I post, and then comment on it extensively through the thread.

Always good to have a justification.

Matthew 7:3

 

[Daylight63]

Perry, you've been angry ever since the day I demonstrated you hadn't read your own science paper and that the paper's conclusions actually supported what I've always been saying.

Who is Perry????

I read the papers I posted and I posted them to support my point. YOU mischaracterized my point and then failed to find support for YOUR MISCHARACTERIZATION and complained about me for some reason.

See, Cypress, when you undertake STRAWMEN ARGUMENTS you are failing your own point. You can't misrepresent my point and then claim you can't find support for your misrepresentation in my posts. That's not how solid reasoning works.

Perhaps you could try honestly debating the points on their merits instead of just making up lies about other people's position and then excoriating them for it.

 

[Cypress]

Who is Perry????

You are the poster Perry the PhD with a new screen name.

Remember when you were posting as Perry and you denied having the sock puppet Novojank?

Same thing here.