Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

[superb-owl]

If you’re interested in Mach’s philosophy, which influenced Einstein heavily, I wrote about it here:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-ernst-mac...

[Eupraxias]

Anyone interested in Einstein's ontological and epistemological beliefs should read Arthur Fine's excellent "The Shaky Game - Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory".

One of the most rewarding books I have ever read.

[the-mitr]

Of possible interest (from a Soviet perspective)

https://archive.org/details/gribanov-albert-einstein-philoso...

https://archive.org/details/EinsteinAndThePhilosophicalProbl...

[reocha]

If you want more info on Einstein's political philosophy this is a good read: https://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/uploads/Einstein%...

[xingyzt]

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

[dang]

That's an artifact of HN's second-chance system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!

[idlewords]

You are probably moving at high speed relative to the Hacker News server

[DiscourseFan]

Look I don't know who bullied you in school, but there's no need to condescend to a group of people who actually take a pay cut to research things that aren't "cutting edge." I don't agree with Einstein's philosophy, but I don't think that trying to understand things from a philosophical perspective is useless. I also feel like its ridiculous to think that tweaking models and looking at mathematical formulas all day actually tells you anything about the world itself, it just tells you what we think about the world. And if you never actually stop to question what it is that you're thinking about, or why you think about it in a certain way, then you'll go on thinking forever and you'll never actually find what you were looking for in the first place.

[phendrenad2]

If you read the article, you'll see that they are not trying to interpret Einstein's papers, nor interpret relativity, nor interpret quantum physics using Kantian philosophy.

[FrustratedMonky]

Not sure I get your objection. This is about Einstein's writings. So are you saying we should only read Einstein's more technical writings, but not bother reading anything Einstein said on any other subject of Philosophy or History, even Literature, or any other field?

Many physicist also deal in Philosophy. A PhD is a "Doctor of Philosophy".

All science was once just some dude speculating on ideas and it was called philosophy.

Every field that is pushing the boundaries of knowledge can be called philosophy.

[foldr]

The article is just detailing Einstein’s response to various (neo-)Kantian critiques of General Relativity. It’s Einstein who chose to engage with those critiques, not the author of the article.

[jonsen]

Have you read Anti-philosophical Dictionary:

http://www.naur.com/AntiphilDict.pdf