Without philosophy Einstein said he would have "contributed nothing" | Massimo Pigliucci » IAI TV
Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” And yet, modern science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss philosophy as largely irrelevant to scientific inquiry. In this article, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. Pigliucci shows how Einstein’s sophisticated philosophy, which transcended the rationalism-empiricism dichot...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
