Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

Um, you know, this this this discussion about lawhood uh is a great example.

You know, both me and Eddie and Shelley are inspired by noting that traditional philosophical accounts of lawhood don't seem to do a very good job of accommodating the kinds of

Laws we see in modern physics.

And I think there's there's um useful sort of uh flow of information backwards as well, because using these philosophical tools and you know doing the work to analyze, okay, so what are laws now?

What how can we understand the types of laws we're seeing in modern physics?

Uh that's a useful way of clarifying our thought about what's going on in theoretical physics, uh, understanding, you know, what what are useful directions for future research and sort of

and dis and understanding uh how we can c connect those developments back up to the kinds of things we're concerned with in in philosophy and in in in everyday life.

I think there's a wide spectrum of attitudes within physics.

I mean, I certainly have encountered people with that attitude, but I've also encountered many physicists who l who love philosophy and are very interested in it and are very keen to talk to philosophers.

Um so while that attitude does exist, I think that you know there's also plenty of goodwill and interest on in both communities to talk to each other and and make progress.

Uh definitely the most obvious example I would say is Bell's theorem in the discussion around non-locality.

Bell's theorem was very much regarded as not mainstream physics when it was uh formulated.

Um, Bell was a physicist, but other people involved in the the discussion of non-locality and pushing this forward, uh, like Shimoni were not physicists, they were pr primarily philosophers, and certainly uh I think the

topic probably got more of a foothold within philosophy before it moved back into mainstream physics.

But now it's certainly recognized as mainstream physics.

You know, the Nobel Prize was awarded for it recently.

So I think that's an example of a case where topics that were considered sort of foundational and conceptual

were worked on within philosophy for a while but ultimately became recognized as part of a a mainstream physics.

Uh my undergrad was in f both physics and philosophy.

Uh so I guess both.

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