Good post, Joe G Chimp, much better than your pompous stuff.
Einstein was nominated for membership in the Berlin Academy in 1910 by Planck, who urged that Einstein be accepted because of his epistemology. Science, especially dealing with cosmology, has a much closer relationship with philosophy than you appear to realize. The model of the universe that dominated scientific thought prior to Einstein was based on the writings of Kant, who is noted as a philosopher and not as a physicist. Two earlier heavyweights in the world of science were De Cartes and Bacon, both of whom essentially were writing philosophy: idealism and empiricism respectively. Newton made his discoveries by taking a middle ground between the two; the strict followers of De Cartes and Bacon discovered nothing. More recently science has been split among logical positivists, of whom Mach is representative (although Mach is also called a "sensationist"); philosophical realists, who would include Planck, Einstein, Rutherford, and Schroedinger in their number, and a more recent band of new age gnostics whose names escape me. |
