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Re: Stephen Hawking: "Philosophy is dead" [message #11271]

Wed, 08 August 2012 01:19

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"David E. Powell" <David_Powell3006@msn.com> wrote in
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> On Jul 25, 1:27�am, Soy un perdedor <usern...@isp.invalid> wrote:

>> "Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why

>> this particular set of laws and not some other?

>>

>> Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is

>> dead. Philosophy has 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."

>>

>> - from The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

>

> Not really:

>

> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/06/god_and_the _ivory_tow

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> <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/06/

> god_and_the_ivory_tower?page=0,0>

They are talking philosophy, not religion (or even theology). Point
being that so-called philosophers haven't made a contribution to our
understanding of how the world works in centuries (unless and only
unless you count scientists as natural philosophers).

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