Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
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We're all adapted for different kinds of
as I said, scholarly pursuits, different ways of engaging with scholarship.
uh and to make progress on thorny problems, especially cases in science in which we may be lacking in data, I think more engagement between scientists and certainly people in our field would be would be very helpful.
Um
I know that there's this attitude that some people in any discipline have, philosophy, mathematics, that we shouldn't be too focused on whether our field is useful to other fields.
you know, uh that our our field doesn't exist merely to serve other fields, but has its own ends and its own meaning.
And I I agree with that.
I think the kinds of questions that we often talk about, you, Emily, and me specifically talk about, but more broadly people talk about in this field, are interesting and worthwhile to pursue for their own sake, on their own merits.
But the fact that
Thinking philosophically about physics, physical theories, physical problems can be extremely useful in the progress of science is not a demerit, it's something to be highlighted, and I don't think that we always do a good enough job highlighting it.
Yeah, that's right.
Um I I I talk about how I have two main modes, physical philosophy, where I'm interested in the areas of philosophy that are inspired by or constrained by or connected in some way to questions in in in in in physics, in science generally, but but questions that are more traditional questions in philosophy and metaphysics.
My other mode is I call philosophical physics, which is doing physics, but using the methodologies that come from analytics.
Right.
Rigorous scrutiny of definitions, of arguments, of assumptions, um, being very careful to avoid too much speculation, you know, finding gaps in our theories, uncovering, um, you know, lifting rocks, looking under them, you know, scrutinizing, looking through things.
And there's a prejudiced of this leading to major progress in science.
Um and
You know, when I have a conversation with I'm interested to get your your take on this as well.
I'd love to hear from you what you think are the biggest contributions that philosophical thinking about physics, philosophy of physics, has contributed to the development um of of of modern science.
The examples I would point to just in the limited case of quantum mechanics are the arguments over EPR and entanglement, which were done fully in philosophy
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