Why
the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel – review
Who decides what constitutes reality? A fluent philosophical attack on the
hubris of science
Gabriel’s main target is the arrogance of science. He wants to attack
the suggestion that only by means of scientific method will we someday be able
to comprehend the whole of reality. Instead, he argues, “we only ever know
sections of the infinite. An overview of the whole is impossible”. The
hubristic Hawking-Dawkins scientific intellectual complex is in the German
professor’s crosshairs. Hawking gets rapped over the knuckles for that witless
passage in A Brief History of Time in which he claims that
scientists have replaced philosophers as torchbearers in the quest for
knowledge. Gabriel charges him with reducing everything in a potentially
infinite number of object domains to one, namely physics. “Had he known
anything about philosophy and its history,” writes Gabriel of Hawking, “he
would have noticed that for a considerable time philosophers have argued that
precisely the questions he himself raises cannot be answered by finding out
more about the universe.”
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