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Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reality that slowly rejected its origins and assumed a … Continue reading
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Can science and philosophy mix constructively?
Quantum mechanics can sometimes be very hard to understand, so much so that even thinking about it becomes difficult. This could be because its foundations lay in the action-centric depiction of reality that slowly rejected its origins and assumed a … Continue reading
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Tagged atomism, Daniel Sarewitz, epistemology, Karl Popper, Laplace's Demon, logical positivism, Paul Feyerabend, Philosophy of Science, Science, science communication, Thomas Kuhn
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When must science give way to religion?
When I saw an article titled ‘Sometimes science must give way to religion‘ in Nature on August 22, 2012, by Daniel Sarewitz, I had to read it. I am agnostic, and I try as much as I can to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor, apathy, argument, biology, Daniel Sarewitz, Higgs boson, human mind, Large Hadron Collider, logic, Tevatron
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