Re: Use of Philosophy
Perhaps those scientists are speaking of a particular strain of philosophy that was classically aimed at deciphering the universe around us … the branch of of philosophy that deals with the how is science and the branch that deals with the why is still nested under the parent group of philosophy …
Some scientists don’t beleive the why is a valid branch of philosophy because that premise begs the question that there needs to be “a purpose” … which implies there needs to be a “primordial intelligence”. Since many of those scientists are also atheists they would like it that no body asks that a priori any more and wishfully say that philosophy is dead.
But it is not … philosophy even lives on in core science but they fail to give it that recognition.