Post by mcantu on Mar 14, 2016 3:57:35 GMT
1. Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy?
Looking over the way that people look at life and how it is comprehended can go from real simple to extraordinary reasoning’s. When looking at philosophy and how it can be understood relating the complicated and extensive pieces and facets that covers physics and the universe is a great comparison that so easily fits. To really understand physics and the universe you must look into the base of the topic and work outwards for complete understanding. The same can be said for philosophy and understanding all that comes within the field. Einstein stated this in his own words during a lecture he was giving, “How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.” (Lane & Lane, p.14). Einstein was saying basically that both math, or the universe, and life’s existence takes time and experience to fully understand.
2. What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
Eliminative Materialism is considered to be a way to find answers to any questions or happenings in the physical world. Per the text The Great Mystery: Matter vs. Spirit, “Simply put, if the phenomena cannot be explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics, and if that too is incomplete, then to chemistry, then to biology, then to psychology, then to sociology, etc.”( Lane & Lane, p.21) In an easier explanation scientists work from one area of science to another to find a logical and scientific answer to phenomena or what has been considered one. Throughout time many phenomena have been answered by a scientific reasoning. One could be how people once believed that diseases and natural catastrophes were punishments from the gods or the discovery of gravity. Though after advances and scientific study occurred we now know that sicknesses are caused by viruses and bacteria. Natural disasters are caused by shifts in the earth or atmospheric conditions. And how the discovery of gravity changed the way people understand how the planets and the universe work.
References:
Diem-Lane, A. & Lane, D. C.(2014). The Great Mystery: Matter vs. Spirit. MSAC Philosophy Group.
Diem-Lane, A. & Lane, D. C.(2014). Quantum Weirdness: Einstein vs. Bohr. MSAC Philosophy Group.
Looking over the way that people look at life and how it is comprehended can go from real simple to extraordinary reasoning’s. When looking at philosophy and how it can be understood relating the complicated and extensive pieces and facets that covers physics and the universe is a great comparison that so easily fits. To really understand physics and the universe you must look into the base of the topic and work outwards for complete understanding. The same can be said for philosophy and understanding all that comes within the field. Einstein stated this in his own words during a lecture he was giving, “How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.” (Lane & Lane, p.14). Einstein was saying basically that both math, or the universe, and life’s existence takes time and experience to fully understand.
2. What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
Eliminative Materialism is considered to be a way to find answers to any questions or happenings in the physical world. Per the text The Great Mystery: Matter vs. Spirit, “Simply put, if the phenomena cannot be explained fully and comprehensively by mathematics, then one turns to physics, and if that too is incomplete, then to chemistry, then to biology, then to psychology, then to sociology, etc.”( Lane & Lane, p.21) In an easier explanation scientists work from one area of science to another to find a logical and scientific answer to phenomena or what has been considered one. Throughout time many phenomena have been answered by a scientific reasoning. One could be how people once believed that diseases and natural catastrophes were punishments from the gods or the discovery of gravity. Though after advances and scientific study occurred we now know that sicknesses are caused by viruses and bacteria. Natural disasters are caused by shifts in the earth or atmospheric conditions. And how the discovery of gravity changed the way people understand how the planets and the universe work.
References:
Diem-Lane, A. & Lane, D. C.(2014). The Great Mystery: Matter vs. Spirit. MSAC Philosophy Group.
Diem-Lane, A. & Lane, D. C.(2014). Quantum Weirdness: Einstein vs. Bohr. MSAC Philosophy Group.