07 June 2016

Science doesn't think

In  his 1954 lectures, Was heißt Denken?, Heidegger famously said,
"Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht."
(English: "Science doesn't think.")
Is that a way to make friends and influence people in this day and age?
Depends on who your friends are.

Bertrand Russell says in his ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein from 1925,
and scientists as well as analytic philosophers agree:
"Common sense imagines that when it sees a table, it sees a table. This is a delusion."
This pronouncement is a consequence of seeing the world through the peep-hole of mathematical formulae.
Is Bertrand Russell your friend?
He himself is certainly a friend of mathematized science, which rewards all its loyal vassals by imbuing them with hubristic self-confidence.

Further reading: the Appendix 'A demathematizing phenomenological view of quantum mechanical indeterminacy' in The Digital Cast of Being. 
Hear also Analytic P. and Willy P. absorbs Bertie.

16 May 2016

Enlightenment

You can take an ass to water,
but you can't...
You can take your arse to the loo,
but you can't...

Glaube

Du hast das Gift der gängigen Überzeugungen Deiner Zeit
mit der Muttermilch eingesogen?
Du hast sie nicht nicht in Frage gestellt?
Du glaubst noch an die
der Achtung erheischenden Erhabenenheit des Glaubens?
Du glaubst an den Glauben?
Viel Glück.

Abgekoppelt

Die Lage heute:

Die Wissenschaft abgekoppelt von der Philosophie,
Die Künste abgekoppelt von der Philosophie,
Die Literatur abgekoppelt von der Philosophie,
Die Geisteswissenschaften abgekoppelt von der Philosophie,
Die Philosophie abgekoppelt von der Philosophie.

Uncoupled

Today's situation:

Science uncoupled from philosophy.
The arts uncoupled from philosophy.
Literature uncoupled from philosophy.
The humanities uncoupled from philosophy.
Philosophy uncoupled from philosophy.

Time and movement

Aristotle makes the monstrous claim:
_adunaton chronon choris kinaeseos einai_
 ("time is impossible separated from movement" De gen et corr. 337a24)
Isn't the opposite the case? Namely:

Movement is impossible without time.


This puts an end to metaphysics.
It may take centuries for this to sink in, if it ever does.

Further reading: A Question of Time