segunda-feira, 2 de novembro de 2015

Contra a hubris das ciências

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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