In December, a group of professors from America’s top philosophy departments, including Rutgers,* Columbia, Yale, and NYU, set out to establish the philosophy of cosmology as a new field of study within the philosophy of physics. The group aims to bring a philosophical approach to the basic questions at the heart of physics, including those concerning the nature, age and fate of the universe. This past week, a second group of scholars from Oxford and Cambridge announced their intention to launch a similar project in the United Kingdom. (via What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic)
like other sciences, physics came out of philosophy and now it’s back in again..
Posted January 27, 2012 at 1:50pm in physics philosophy cosmology astronomy astrology big bang science
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