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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 3-12

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319576688

Full citation:

Mario Bunge, "Why don't scientists respect philosophers?", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

An opinion poll published in 2013 showed that David Hume is nowadays the philosophers' favorite philosopher of all times. Hume himself would be surprised, since only one of his many books, namely his Enquiry (1748), was properly philosophical. Moreover, that work was neither successful nor very original, since it only elaborated in great detail the scholastic principle Nihil est in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu. Science, from physics to biology to historiography, has bypassed this principle, and Hume realized this, as he had the nerve to attack Newtonian mechanics despite lacking the mathematics required to understand it.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 3-12

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319576688

Full citation:

Mario Bunge, "Why don't scientists respect philosophers?", in: Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017