(January 9, 2016 at 8:41 am)Faith No More Wrote: When those scientists talk about philosophy being dead, I don't think they mean that philosophy itself is useless. Like Quantum said, science requires philosophical assumptions, and any scientist worth a grain of salt knows that. What they mean when they say philosophy is dead is that philosophers fail to keep up with the latest scientific findings and adjust their theories accordingly. When was the last time you heard someone pontificating about a soul reference the latest neuroscientific findings?
So, it's not really that philosophy is dead. It's that philosophers themselves have left it dying.
I've said it before. Often when I hear philosophers of science talk about my specialty of quantum field theory and particles, I want to throw things. Many of them don't understand the theory properly (it is damn hard!) and that leads to embarrassing results.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
