Massimi’s prize speech, delivered earlier this week, defended both science and the philosophy of science from accusations of irrelevance. That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the U.K.’s Royal Society. On the other hand, some physicists, such as Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, were notoriously dismissive of the value of the philosophy of science. On the one hand, some scientists working on ideas such as string theory or the multiverse - ideas that reach far beyond our current means to test them - are forced to make a philosophical defense of research that can’t rely on traditional hypothesis testing. It’s an interesting time to be making a case for philosophy in science.
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