Refreshing. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just looked at the book review for Hawking and Mlodinow's book The Grand > Design: > > http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/45515 > > > Although the book might be interesting, I was caught up by the statement > Philosophy is Dead! > > *Quote: The Grand Design* begins with a series of questions: "How can we > understand the world in which we find ourselves?", "How does the universe > behave?", "What is the nature of reality?", "Where did all this come from?" > and "Did the universe need a creator?". As the book's authors, Stephen > Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, point out, "almost all of us worry about > [these questions] some of the time", and over the millennia, philosophers > have worried about them a great deal. Yet after opening their book with an > entertaining history of philosophers' takes on these fundamental questions, > Hawking and Mlodinow go on to state provocatively that philosophy is dead: > since philosophers have not kept up with the advances of modern science, it > is now scientists who must address these large questions. > > > Odd. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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