![]() ![]() Grayling’s book shows us the enduring value and relevance of philosophy-so, while I agree with Hawking and Mlodinow on the importance of science in answering questions, I reject their view that philosophy has nothing left to say.Īs Grayling points out, modern science is a result of philosophy asking the right questions about metaphysics and epistemology, and philosophy also contributed to the creation of the social sciences and cognitive science. ![]() Grayling’s new book The History of Philosophy? The answer is an unequivocal no. Have I, then, just wasted a great deal of my time in reading A. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.” They pose some of the big questions about the universe and existence and dismissively write: “Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. ![]() In Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s The Grand Design, the authors take aim at that most seemingly irrelevant of fields: philosophy. ![]()
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