Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
by akvadrako on Sunday July 10, 2016 @03:53AM
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It's surprisingly recent, but much of our modern understanding of what the scientific method is comes from Karl Popper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method#P...
That is a good example. I was trying to think of others since then. That was 500 years ago or so. What are some more recent ones for physics?
I imagine if logic is considered part of philosophy, perhaps boolean and propositional logic had a hand in helping computing...
Then if ecology or sociology is considered I can see how philosophical ideas about class, society, environment would be incorporated into practical fields or be used to start societal transformations (Marxism perhaps?).
But I can't think much for physics recently? I have read and seen known physicists dable in and use philosphy to explain what they accomplished or observed. Bohr, for example, was fond of Kierkegaard. It would be good to have examples of philosophers who changed the course of physics.