Philosophy For Our Times When science meets philosophy | Philip Goff, Julian Baggini, Peter Atkins, Güneş Taylor
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May 17, 2022 Scientists and philosophers clash over whether science can explain everything, from consciousness and morality to aesthetics and meaning. They explore where philosophy fits when experiments and equations meet questions of value, experience, and what it means to understand reality.
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Awarded Science Communicator
- Güneş Taylor won the Crick public engagement prize in 2018 for communicating science to the public.
- She works at the Francis Crick Institute and blends research with outreach.
Experiment And Math As Truth Tools
- Peter Atkins says experiment plus mathematics is the only reliable route to truth about the natural world.
- He views philosophy as clarification of common sense and warns theology can contaminate it.
Scientism Versus Philosophical Synthesis
- Philip Goff calls scientism the ideology that experimental science is the only valid route to truth.
- He says philosophers must synthesise different sources of knowledge into a unified metaphysics.