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| Is the universe a soulless cosmos as some modern physicists like to believe? Science and philosophy is about being not dogmatic, and that must be exercised by everyone... Hawking included... |
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-10]: The known physicist Stephen Hawking announced that philosophy is nowadays useless because it has not been able to keep up with the recent developments in science, especially theoretical physics [1]. Hawkins should know that it is science which is driven away from humans and philosophy and not the other way around. Some scientists today (fortunatelly not all) are based on specific dogmas (e.g. the dogma that "everything is matter"), then use more dogmas (e.g. the dogma that "everything is measurable") to reach to conclusions without taking into account what philosophers have to say with the excuse that "they do not know". But who knows more? The one who is based on dogmas or the one who searches and questions everything? Who knows more? The one who investigates man and believes (based at least on good indications and observations of our everyday life) in the existence of human spirit [see "Religion and science unification" for more on that belief], or the one who investigates a universe via equations that do not have room for human consciousness anywhere in them? Science has today taken the role that some church circles played in the past: it has started being dogmatic and that will be her undoing...
PS. One can have a look at "The Limits of Science" for a list of dogmas todays science is following.
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