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If only physicists were a bit more curious about philosophy…


It's a good idea, but how could they be, in fact?


Why not? What do you mean?


The complaint (a very valid and important one, imho) is that physicists are ~inadequately curious about philosophy - this is the current state of affairs.

To make this no longer be (at some point in the future) the state of affairs, how could it be done (make it "in fact")?

"Why not?" seems like a decent first attack to the problem - why are physicists (or, scientists in general) so bad at philosophy? For one, I would nominate the "When you have a powerful hammer, everything looks like a nail" psychological phenomenon, as one plausible part of the puzzle.


“Everything looks like a nail” strikes me as an accurate description. Dominance of natural sciences provides this philosophical bias towards physicalistic monism, and physicalism in turn limits how those sciences evolve.




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