{"id":25,"date":"2002-03-17T00:59:04","date_gmt":"2002-03-17T07:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-06-07T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T03:43:48","slug":"physics-v-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Physics v. Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are to carve the beast of reality along the joints, there is a dovetail where physics and philosophy meet, but the line will be carved by philosophy alone.  The habit of philosophers and hangers-on to philosophy to discuss, armchair Hawking-style, matters cosmological and quantum-mechanical annoys me to no end.  Reading a nice, well-written smackdown of such vice, like <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2062844\">this one<\/a>, gives me cause to rejoice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are to carve the beast of reality along the joints, there is a dovetail where physics and philosophy meet, but the line will be carved by philosophy alone. The habit of philosophers and hangers-on to philosophy to discuss, armchair Hawking-style, matters cosmological and quantum-mechanical annoys me to no end. Reading a nice, well-written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-rebuttals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theagon.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}