Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)(plato.stanford.edu)

104 points by xingyzt 2 years ago | 14 comments

superb-owl 2 years ago |

If you’re interested in Mach’s philosophy, which influenced Einstein heavily, I wrote about it here:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-ernst-mac...

Eupraxias 2 years ago |

Anyone interested in Einstein's ontological and epistemological beliefs should read Arthur Fine's excellent "The Shaky Game - Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory".

One of the most rewarding books I have ever read.

the-mitr 2 years ago |

Of possible interest (from a Soviet perspective)

https://archive.org/details/gribanov-albert-einstein-philoso...

https://archive.org/details/EinsteinAndThePhilosophicalProbl...

reocha 2 years ago |

If you want more info on Einstein's political philosophy this is a good read: https://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/uploads/Einstein%...

xingyzt 2 years ago |

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

dang 2 years ago | |

That's an artifact of HN's second-chance system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!

malodyets 2 years ago | | |

I don’t know how dang does it, but the internet would be so much better if every community had even half as good a moderator.

idlewords 2 years ago | |

You are probably moving at high speed relative to the Hacker News server

m_mueller 2 years ago | | |

Hacker News /ob/server

FTFY