Timeline for How much philosophy should a physicist know?
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:25 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Dorfman suggested a good understanding of epistemology and ontology was important; Mitch answered a good understanding of the philosiphy of science. In fact, its on record that Einstein as well as a whole generation of young German physicists were influenced by the positivist philosophy of Ernst Mach. I could add that Grete Hermann was influenced by Kantian philosophy - specifically his notion of causality. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:14 | comment | added | AlmostClueless | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:13 | comment | added | AlmostClueless | If you think I answered "he was right" you didn't understand my answer. My answer tries to argue why your question is actually not very well constructed. And that before asking "How much philosophy should a physicist know?" you should say what you mean by physicist (They are not all cosmologists by the way.) And yes I did not answer your second question but almost no of the above answers do. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:09 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | My question asked for a hood example to show why Hawking was wrong. You've answered, more or less, that Hawking was right. So you haven't answered my question. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:03 | comment | added | AlmostClueless | I never said that the above descriptions hold for all physicists... Maybe you should reread your question and my answer | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | In mathematics, one counter-example is enough to show that a theory does not hold. But here is another couple of examples: Josef-Maria Jauch and Constantin Piron in their work on Quantum Foundations referred to Aristotles theory of change. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 21:56 | comment | added | AlmostClueless | So you argue that my description is not enough because it does not hold for all physicists but yours does but you only give one example? The point I am trying to make is what one calls a physicist is defined rather by the "mean" then by the individual. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 21:54 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | What do you mean by 'absent'? This makes no sense. Carlos Rovelli is a physicist in any sense of this term. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 21:52 | comment | added | AlmostClueless | Your (absent) description does not either. So to speak about someone we call physicist we should first define the term. Furthermore I also stated your point in the answer itself. And also note that "being helpful" does not describe what was actually helpful about it. Maybe it got him interested/motivated but without you being more explicit about your statement we don't know. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 21:49 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Well, your description of physicists doesn't describe all physicists. For example, Carlos Rovelli, ond of the cofounders of the modern theory of Loop Quantum Gravity is on record saying that philosophy has been helpful in his work as a physicist. | |
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| S Dec 20, 2021 at 21:47 | history | answered | AlmostClueless | CC BY-SA 4.0 |