RESHARED POST FROM BRUNO GONÇALVES

This is just embarrassing. Krauss got destroyed by a scientifically-trained philosopher in the Times, and instead of swallowing his pride he goes on a rant against the discipline. His understanding of the relations between science and philosophy is so full of errors and presumption that I don’t even know where to start.

Here’s a big hint: if your argument requires going through some of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and determining whether they were “scientists” or “philosophers”, you are doing it wrong.

Bruno Gonçalves originally shared this post:

Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?

“I think at some point you need to provoke people. Science is meant to make people uncomfortable.”