On 09 Sep 2013, at 04:10, chris peck wrote:
Hi John
>> Nearly a century ago J.B.S. Haldane was confronted with a
bonehead who said he thought Evolution was not a scientific theory
because he was unable to provide a hypothetical way it could be
disproved. In response Haldane thundered "RABBITS IN THE
PRECAMBRIAN !".
It wasn't evolution that Popper thought was metaphysics, it was
natural selection and the reason that he thought it untestable
was. ... , actually, why bother?
>>I believe sincerity is a hugely overrated virtue, I have more
respect for somebody insincerely right than sincerely wrong.
That you have a hard on for insincerity comes across loud and clear,
John. You needn't point it out.
Lol. Good point. At least it is nice that John can be sincere on this
point.
Bruno
But, here's a question for you, what about people who are insincere
and wrong such as yourself ? Does your love of insincerity outweigh
your contempt for error just enough to provide a morsel of self
respect?
Btw. Did you use to post as Major Higgs Boson, or something, on
other boards? The perpetual grumpiness and tortuous attempts to be
clever really ring a bell for some reason. Obviously there are many
grumpy people in the world so I know its a long shot.
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 16:47:32 -0400
Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mach was the big physicist and thermodynamicist, Mach's Principle.
Ernst Mach was a big philosopher but he was more of a medium size
physicist. He wrote his most important scientific paper in 1887, but
the man lived till 1916 and is far far better remembered as a
philosopher than a scientist. He spent nearly 30 years on philosophy
and in opposing Quantum Mechanics, Einstein's Theory of Relativity
both general and special, and even the atomic theory of matter. He
opposed these superb scientific theories for purely philosophical
reasons I might add. Yet another reason philosophy has a bad name.
The great philosophical discoveries were made by Darwin and Mendel
and Watson and Crick and Maxwell and Einstein and Bohr and
Heisenberg and Feynman and Godel and Turing. None of these people
called themselves philosophers and some even expressed contempt for
the subject, but they made the great philosophical discoveries of
the age nevertheless.
Let me issue a challenge to all on this list: Tell me one thing,
just one thing, that people who call themselves philosophers have
discovered in the last 2 centuries that is deep, clear, precise,
unexpected, and true that scientists had not discovered long before.
John K Clark
All I am saying that often in public discourses' I will see
physicists, very hard case ones. delve into logical possitivism.
They may also enjoy frosted flakes, as well, but the do the LP dance
sometimes. But, what of it? It's simply my experience of these
chats. I do really like it when philosophers do go deep into the
sciences though. It clicks for me.
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From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 9:51 pm
Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?
Do they deny the existence of electrons? quarks? as Mach denied atoms.
Brent
On 9/7/2013 3:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Yet, there's lots of scientists in public forums like this, who
embrace logical positivism. I am not saying this is a good thing,
but something I have experienced.
-----Original Message-----
From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?
On 9/7/2013 12:40 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
That's right. I´m not joking if i say that the thing that
discredited philosophers definitively was relativity, quantum
mechanics and their realization: the atomic bomb. That is the event
that raised physicalism, a branch of logical positivism and
analytical philosophy, and discredited any other way of thinking.
If by "physicalism" you mean the meta- of physics, then it's not
positivism. Positivism hasn't been considered a good meta-physics
since Mach. Too many unobservable things: atoms, photons, quarks,
virtual particles,... turned out to make good empirical models.
Brent
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