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One of the evergreen topics in online discussions of physics is what role, if any, philosophy plays in the discipline. I've been blogging since 2002 (which is after the dinosaurs, but before the giant ...

You might not understand what philosophers do for a living, but that does not mean their work is meaningless. Robert P Crease tires of hearing physicists trying to kill his profession Alive and ...

Avid readers of Physics World will know that we have for many years published a monthly column called “Critical Point” written by Robert P Crease, a historian and philosopher of science from Stony ...

One of the evergreen topics in my social-media circles has to do with the relationship between physics and philosophy, which generally comes up in the form of accusations that physicists are too ...

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. To ...

Many of the great physicists of the 20th century have appreciated the importance of philosophy for science. Einstein, for example, wrote in a letter in 1944: I fully agree with you about the ...

What is learning for if it doesn't lead to wisdom? That's a question worth asking in light of an ongoing cosmological street fight being waged (remarkably) in broad media daylight. The rumble tumbled ...

Peter Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the ...

Philosophy Needs Physics. Physics Needs Philosophy | RealClearScience Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, philosophy has always had, and still has, far more influence ...