That is indeed a nifty quote, frank. Thanks for posting it. I spaced out and came late to Thuram. Stephen and had a really enlightening (for me) conversation..
Well into my second reading of MCarthy's Stella Maris. N On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 11:33 AM Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe Ramsey, who took over my job.in the Philosophy Department at Carnegie > Mellon, posted the following on Facebook: > > I like Neil DeGrasse Tyson a lot, but I saw him give a spirited defense of > science in which he oddly gave no credit to philosophers at all. His straw > man philosopher is a dedicated *armchair* philosopher who spins theories > without paying attention to scientific practice and contributes nothing to > scientific understanding. He misses that scientists themselves are > constantly raising obviously philosophical questions and are often > ill-equipped to think about them clearly. What is the correct > interpretation of quantum mechanics? What is the right way to think about > reductionism? Is reductionism the right way to think about science? What is > the nature of consciousness? Can you explain consciousness in terms of > neuroscience? Are biological kinds real? What does it even mean to be real? > Or is realism a red herring; should we be pragmatists instead? Scientists > raise all kinds of philosophical questions and have ill-informed opinions > about them. But *philosophers* try to answer them, and scientists do pay > attention to the controversies. At least the smart ones do. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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