Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical? Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs an… more about book…
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The guy who made it is a physicist though, and NOT a philosopher. According to the About the Author section of the guy’s book, he has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (field and/or concentration of the degree not mentioned), and he teaches physics at MIT.
I’ve noticed this a lot with scientists who dismiss philosophy. They personally engage in bad philosophy, and then they say philosophy is bad because of bad philosophy! They identify philosophy as a problem, yet the problem in philosophy is them!
If he had given this question the proper philosophical treatment it deserves, there wouldn’t be a problem.
I think this is one of the biggest problems with communicating philosophy… non-philosophers engage in bad philosophy and cannot distinguish bad philosophy from good, so they dismiss all philosophy as bad. It doesn’t help that the subjects that philosophers engage in also happen to be ones that laypeople are forced to engage in without critical inquiry.
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
308
Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical?
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs an… more about book…
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The guy who made it is a physicist though, and NOT a philosopher. According to the About the Author section of the guy’s book, he has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (field and/or concentration of the degree not mentioned), and he teaches physics at MIT.
I’ve noticed this a lot with scientists who dismiss philosophy. They personally engage in bad philosophy, and then they say philosophy is bad because of bad philosophy! They identify philosophy as a problem, yet the problem in philosophy is them!
If he had given this question the proper philosophical treatment it deserves, there wouldn’t be a problem.
I think this is one of the biggest problems with communicating philosophy… non-philosophers engage in bad philosophy and cannot distinguish bad philosophy from good, so they dismiss all philosophy as bad. It doesn’t help that the subjects that philosophers engage in also happen to be ones that laypeople are forced to engage in without critical inquiry.
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