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Post by pinchbeck on Nov 20, 2011 13:56:01 GMT
For some reason there are those who claim that philosophy is not relevant to science. I beg to differ. Without philosophy, you can't do any science, because you have to begin with some basic premises, which are philosophical in nature.
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Post by jubeanation on Nov 21, 2011 9:03:51 GMT
If you flip through Hawking's Breif History if Time, he says the same in the opening I think.
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Post by Darius on Nov 22, 2011 17:12:15 GMT
Yes the philosophy of most of science is materialism.
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Post by waymarker on Jan 14, 2012 21:12:32 GMT
In general I like philosophy but i think there's a danger if it's taken too seriously, for example Friedrich Nietzsche died insane. But at the fun level it can be er...fun, as typified by this story i heard- A philosophy teacher held up a pencil to his class and said "i want you to write an essay on this pencil and i'll judge which i like best" The winner was a guy whose essay consisted of just two words- "What pencil?" Great deep stuff there..
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Post by Bayes on Jan 18, 2012 20:14:08 GMT
Personally I'd have asked for the pencil so that I could put the essay on it.
Science certainly includes a philosophy, which I would say is slightly different than materialism, it includes a specific way of looking at the world that allows for scientific experimentation and exploration.
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Post by rns on Apr 21, 2012 18:01:45 GMT
In general I like philosophy but i think there's a danger if it's taken too seriously, for example Friedrich Nietzsche died insane. <snip> LOL! Nietzsche died insane because he had tertiary syphilis, not because he was a philosopher.
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