> But if your goal is to discover new, deeper laws, you need to mix with philosophers again. Some reading in this direction: "How Hume and Mach Helped Einstei

> But if your goal is to discover new, deeper laws, you need to mix with philosophers again. Some reading in this direction: "How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity", Norton "Range", Epstein. Ch 1 discusses Bool's influence on Shannon for the discovery of information theory. Ch 5 includes anecdotes and research for "Thinking Outside Experience", including the methods of analogy used by Keppler regarding theories of planetary motion. > Then there was this pragmatic turn, where the dominant mode of physics became anti-foundational, anti-philosophy. Related papers: "Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Science, and Global Philosophy", Tieszen "Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy", Hanna