@The Outsider,
The Outsider wrote:
Philosophy is dead. So says Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in their recent publication, The Grand Design. They state this deeply profound statement and then support it with... one sentence. "Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics."
I won't bother going any further right now as to why I think they're off their rockers.
The book does contain lots of profound and interesting scientific insights. But why the authors (both seemingly very intelligent men) think this constitutes a philosophy is beyond me.
So, forum, thoughts, comments, snide remarks?
Oh, people have been announcing the death of philosophy (or, at least what they
think philosophy is) for the last three thousand years. And, as usual, the more certain they feel that philosophy is dead, the more ignorant they are about what philosophy is. As Mark Twain said, when his own death was misreported in some newspapers, "Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated".
If I confused astronomy with astrology, I might also say that astronomy was dead.