Pro-philosophy piece HERE, which among other cool-making features cites official friend of the blog David Wallace.
I wish I could do more than simply appeal to authority concerning any of these issues. Last year I tried to read the two popular anti-string theory books written by phycisists Peter Woit and Lee Smolin only to realize that I'd almost certainly never know enough math to have an opinion about any of the issues they raise.
It was a pretty depressing confrontation with postmodernism (as Lyotard originally defined it).
But I am very happy at least to be a live at a time where people like Wallace, who get graduate degrees both in philosophy and the field about which they philosophize, are able to thrive and (among other things) at least explain what is at stake to the rest of us.
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