Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019) • Hacker News Board

The article is just detailing Einstein’s response to various (neo-)Kantian critiques of General Relativity. It’s Einstein who chose to engage with those critiques, not the author of the article.

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by m_mueller » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #6

xingyzt wrote: post #4

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

You are probably moving at high speed relative to the Hacker News server

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FTFY

Re: Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

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Post by phendrenad2 » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 10:22 AM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #9

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If you read the article, you'll see that they are not trying to interpret Einstein's papers, nor interpret relativity, nor interpret quantum physics using Kantian philosophy.

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Post by FrustratedMonky » Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 10:38 AM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #9

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Not sure I get your objection. This is about Einstein's writings. So are you saying we should only read Einstein's more technical writings, but not bother reading anything Einstein said on any other subject of Philosophy or History, even Literature, or any other field?

Many physicist also deal in Philosophy. A PhD is a "Doctor of Philosophy".

All science was once just some dude speculating on ideas and it was called philosophy.

Every field that is pushing the boundaries of knowledge can be called philosophy.