Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. Meanwhile, via John Norton, we uncover the hidden philosophical assumptions in physics that most scientists don’t even realize they’re making.
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- Hempel (1988) - Oltre il positivismo logico
- Popper (1963) - Conjectures and Refutations, Ch. 3
- Deutsch (1997) - The Fabric of Reality
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