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" You cannot do physics or cosmology without an assumed philosophical basis. You can choose not to think about that basis: it will still be there as an unexamined foundation of what you do. The fact you are unwilling to examine the philosophical foundations of what you do does not mean those foundations are not there; it just means they are unexamined."
From this interview with George Ellis
I have a background in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. I think Ellis is spot on. Unlike the popular Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Stephen Hawking, I think philosophical knowledge has a great deal to offer to the physicist and I would go so far as to agree with him in saying that one must have some kind of assumed philosophical basis for any intellectual undertaking whether that basis is examined or not. One must have some kind of natural understanding and approach to their world that precedes scientific knowledge and may well even make that kind of knowledge possible.
From this interview with George Ellis
I have a background in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. I think Ellis is spot on. Unlike the popular Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Stephen Hawking, I think philosophical knowledge has a great deal to offer to the physicist and I would go so far as to agree with him in saying that one must have some kind of assumed philosophical basis for any intellectual undertaking whether that basis is examined or not. One must have some kind of natural understanding and approach to their world that precedes scientific knowledge and may well even make that kind of knowledge possible.