
Philosophy For Our Times When science meets philosophy | Philip Goff, Julian Baggini, Peter Atkins, Güneş Taylor
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May 17, 2022 AI Snips
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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.
