The Foundation Science Rests On
Socrates said that wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. If that's true, a few of our brightest scientists need some enlightenment.
The popular "Existential Comics" Twitter page appeals to a segment of the population most of us avoid at dinner parties. It's humor at its most esoteric. But Existential Comics recently posted a real zinger that cuts scientific hubris down to size.
A scientists asks why philosophy matters. The philosopher counters and asks "Why does science matter?" The scientist thinks for a moment before replying that science matters because … And here, the philosopher interrupts him and says. "You're doing philosophy."
It would be funnier if so many scientists today didn't share this ill-informed attitude toward philosophy. New Atheist rock star and Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins tweeted on Darwin Day that philosophers' failure to anticipate Darwin was "a severe indictment of philosophy." And theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking recently declared "philosophy is dead."
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