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Well, Frank Wilczek said something like "Philosophy is too important to be left to the philosophers." [0] The unspoken assumption is that those silly philosophe
by avn2109 12y ago
Well, Frank Wilczek said something like "Philosophy is too important to be left to the philosophers." [0] The unspoken assumption is that those silly philosophers are off writing a priori worthless post-Marxist historiographic treatises and other humanities BS, so the real men (physicists) are going to have to storm in guns a blazin' and sort things out.
Being neither a philosopher nor physicist by training, I'm probably unqualified to arbitrate that debate. But it is worth noting that when qualitative approaches meet quantitative approaches, the quant guys seem to pretty persistently come out on top (e.g. Google with programmatic advertising vs. the good old boys selling ads by taking the client out to a steakhouse. Which model overwhelmed the other in mere months?)
[0] http://frankwilczek.com/unification.html http://frankwilczek.com/unification.html
- pmoriarty 12y ago"it is worth noting that when qualitative approaches meet quantitative approaches, the quant guys seem to pretty persistently come out on top" One could certainly make the argument that the practice of science and the creation of technology "gets results" (though there are counter-arguments having to do with human agency or free will, with causality, and with our perception of the world and whether what we perceive is real and whether what looks like obvious cause and effect is actually what's going on here). But whether something "gets results" may have little bearing on whether it is true or an adequate explanation of the world.