I'm inclined to agree, and to extend the statement to physicists as well. Someti...

		n4r9 on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does mathematics need a philosophy? I'm inclined to agree, and to extend the statement to physicists as well. Sometimes I even wonder if they're being disingenuous, for example Stephen Hawking on the one hand says "Philosophy is dead" and on the other hand actively engages in the debate over philosophical realism: https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/...

Maybe he thought philosophy is an attempt to figure out cosmology from pure thought.