Curt Jaimungal argues that astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and spiritual gurus Deepak Chopra and Thomas Campbell can’t logically claim they don’t hold beliefs. This “Theories of Everything” with Curt Jaimungal episode uses analytic philosophy to show why belief’s vital for understanding physics and consciousness, countering what Thomas Campbell and NASA scientist Nathalie Cabrol say.
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A philosophical analysis of the coherence of claims made about a spirit that is eternal, free, able to do anything, knows everything, is perfectly good, is the proper object of human worship and obedience, and is the cre…
In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.--Publisher's description.
“high credence is just belief. And by the way, you may have noticed, of course, the scientific methodology itself reflects beliefs. Belief that the scientific method is reliable, belief that evidence constrains a theory, belief in modus ponens, etc. Quine actually had a concept of holism”