Philosophy For Our Times

When science meets philosophy | Philip Goff, Julian Baggini, Peter Atkins, Güneş Taylor

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May 17, 2022
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ANECDOTE

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.
INSIGHT

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.
INSIGHT

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.
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