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Only a truly great scientist gets mentioned as contributing to the philosophy of science, or is characterized also as a logician on wikipedia. That's often bec
by nbulka 9y ago
Only a truly great scientist gets mentioned as contributing to the philosophy of science, or is characterized also as a logician on wikipedia.
That's often because they were pursuing some philosophical riddle which they were more concerned about than the theories that would later become their legacy.
Cantor and Godel wanted to find God, and in their search, provided much of the early work for Turing and computer science to develop.
Einstein similarly wanted to know the mind of God, and in doing so contributed to quantum mechanics and invented relativity.
Bell's explanation of his theorem in a 1985 BBC Radio interview includes an appeal to the debate between free-will and determinism when interpreting his results.
TL;DR — Important scientific and mathematical breakthroughs often come from a deep exploration of metaphysics, epistemology, free-will, and ontological truth.
- Alekanekelo 9y ago> Bell's explanation of his theorem in a 1985 BBC Radio interview includes an appeal to the debate between free-will and determinism when interpreting his results. That sounds very interesting. Is the radio interview (or a transcript) still available? I tried searching for it and found a possible match for a show on BBC Radio 3 in 1983 [1]. [1] http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7c8c2aba48024a5e925d0aca69c57b21 http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7c8c2aba48024a5e925d0aca69c57b21
- nbulka 9y agohttps://books.google.com/books?id=KHezRs7nsAgC&pg=PA45&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=KHezRs7nsAgC&pg=PA45&sourc...
- mygo 9y agoThis is probably just me being nit picky but... Einstein didn’t invent relativity. It existed before he was born. He discovered it... and told other people about it... in a formal manner.
- Retra 9y agoHe invented an accurate and useful description of it. Which is as much as anybody does to invent something.
- mygo 9y agoI think it’s safe to say that the cotton gin did not exist before Eli Whitney.
- nbulka 9y agoWho invented a table? What even is a table? Or a cotton gin for that matter? A patent? because that sounds awfully like a theory...
- nbulka 9y agoNewton discovered certain patterns that worked. He invented a theory, a way to speak about them. They are indeed an invention, though, because they aren't accurate at very small distances or relatively fast speeds. pun intended.
- Retra 9y agoHe invented a plan for how to build a cotton gin, and that's all anybody needed of him. That was the invention. The rest is just manufacturing.