Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” | Dimitrios A. Karras

Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” And yet, modern science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss philosophy as largely irrelevant to scientific inquiry. In this article, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. Pigliucci shows how Einstein’s sophisticated philosophy, which transcended the rationalism-empiricism dichotomy, allowed him to break free of existing paradigms to revolutionize physics. "This framework, among other things, reveals fundamental limitations in contemporary analytic metaphysics, where conceptual systems operate without empirical constraints, guided only by abstract notions of plausibility and conceivability," he writes. Tap the link to read the full article now: https://lnkd.in/dF7mw6ah

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