Ì can't wait to read Nick Huggett's Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy. This review is perhaps a bit too enthusiastic (I find honest criticism very useful in a review).
The review does capture rather nicely the tragedy of contemporary philosophy of physics (now that it is not the Northstar of analytic philosophy): "Content aside, the book's most impressive feature is that it is guided by the belief that philosophy of physics answers metaphysical questions and by the idea that science and mathematics can be a guide to metaphysics. While this approach is certainly not new, it has frequently been challenged (in principle and in practice) by both scientists and philosophers. It is very common, for instance, to find scientists who judge philosophy a waste of time and are not interested in the fundamental ontological questions connected with the theories they work on. It is also common (if maybe less common) to find metaphysicians who try to provide answers to their questions without even bothering to look at the sciences."
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