Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics --- Philosophy has always played an essential role in the development of science, physics in particular, and is likely to continue to do so By Carlo Rovelli on July 18, 2018 --- Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, philosophy has always had, and still has, far more influence on physics than commonly assumed. A certain current anti-philosophical ideology has had damaging effects on the fertility of science. ---- After Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo . . . After Newton, Leibniz, . . . After Faraday, Maxwell, Boltzmann, . . . After Einstein, . . . Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, . . . 1 - What is space? 2 - What is time? 3 - What is matter ? 4 - What is the “present”? 5 - Is the world deterministic? 6 - Do we need to take the observer into account to describe nature? 7 - What is the quantum wave function? 8 - What exactly does “emergence” mean? 9 - Does a theory of the totality of the universe make sense? 10 - Does it make sense to think that physical laws themselves might evolve? 11 - The bing-bang , the expanding universe . . . ? 12 - Dark matter, dark energy, black holes, . . . ? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/physics-needs-philosophy-philosophy-needs-physics/
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