Monday, July 23, 2018

Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull (Aeon article)


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Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull
// Aeon



What is it with the philosophy-haters in astrophysics and cosmology? From the late Stephen Hawking's claim that 'philosophy is dead', to Steven Weinberg's chapter-long jeremiad 'Against Philosophy' in Dreams of a Final Theory (1992), plenty of physicists and astrophysicists think that philosophy ...

By Bridget Falck

Read at Aeon

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