• Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics

    From 44socrat@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 02:28:41 2020
    Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics
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    Philosophy has always played an essential role in the
    development of science, physics in particular,
    and is likely to continue to do so
    By Carlo Rovelli on July 18, 2018
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    Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science,
    philosophy has always had, and still has, far more influence on physics
    than commonly assumed. A certain current anti-philosophical ideology
    has had damaging effects on the fertility of science.
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    After Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo . . .
    After Newton, Leibniz, . . .
    After Faraday, Maxwell, Boltzmann, . . .
    After Einstein, . . . Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, . . .
    1 - What is space?
    2 - What is time?
    3 - What is matter ?
    4 - What is the “present”?
    5 - Is the world deterministic?
    6 - Do we need to take the observer into account to describe nature?
    7 - What is the quantum wave function?
    8 - What exactly does “emergence” mean?
    9 - Does a theory of the totality of the universe make sense?
    10 - Does it make sense to think