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If anyone post-Frege can define the term philosophy correctly, then it will be helpful to physicists. If not, then not. It's impossible for someone to teach so
by blueprint 10y ago
If anyone post-Frege can define the term philosophy correctly, then it will be helpful to physicists. If not, then not.
It's impossible for someone to teach something that they don't know, have never learned, or learned from someone who doesn't really know.
- pron 10y agoWhy does a precise definition of the discipline matter? AFAIK, there is no such definition of what constitutes physics or even mathematics. Those disciplines are usually "defined" by whatever it is that the people associated with them choose to study. Physics is as physicist does; philosophy is as philosoper does.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoGood question. It shows that this is the snit we've gotten ourselves into: philosophy=formal systems. Physics must be based on a formal system, therefore we must have an advancement in formal systems to help physics. There is no advancement, yadda yadda. The "good" parts of philosophy are the mushy parts. And when you've created a formal system that's self-consistent yet offers no value, you're going to have to step outside formal systems for a while. That's gotta be a painful leap for a lot of folks who believe that math is the ultimate reality.
- naasking 10y agoI wouldn't equate philosophy with formal systems, philosophy is more about what a formal system is, what formalisms actually mean, and deciding when they are important tools for knowledge, and when they are not.