>Yesterday Skip Hills, the owner of HPSST-L sent me notice of an extremely
>interesting discussion on the relation between philosophy and science, one
>which ends up supporting the view that it might be the former which drives
>the latter. The discussants are thoughtful folks you've most likely heard
>of. The whole discussion is posted, and suitable for downloading.
>Here are the particulars:
>
>The URL for it is:
>        http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/sciphilo.html
>
>
>Does philosophy drive science?
>David Albert, John Horgan, Kelly Moore, Robert Park
>
>
>Enjoy!
>g

Thanks.  It is an interesting read.

What never ceases to amaze me is the failure of the participants in these
discussions to distinguish between statements of experience and statements
of explanation of experience.  Although it appears that Horgan is most
guilty of this in the discussion.

To label things *rhetoric* and *not rhetoric* it seems to me is a most
fundamentally and profound rhetorical act in and of itself.

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe."  --K. Amdahl in
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