The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review

Re:The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review by oldmanjay on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:01PM (#12672388)

Feynman did have a body of work to lean on that implies he understood science very deeply, which leads me to wonder what secrets the "philosophy of science" could possibly hold that he didn't understand.

Edit: verb tenses that wishfully put forth we still had Feynman.

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Re:The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review by pmoriarty on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:13PM (#12672457)

If you are sincerely interested in the answer to that question, I urge you to take a philosophy of science class.

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Re:The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review by oldmanjay on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:45PM (#12673369)

I'm not interested enough to take time for something so elusively abstract that seemingly no one can even summarize it convincingly

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Re:The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review by pmoriarty on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:52PM (#12673404)

Please summarize physics for me.

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Re:The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review by M_Grey on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:47PM (#12674401)

The study of the underlying physical constants and interactions arising from those constants.

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