Einstein got it – philosophy and science do go hand in hand | Kenan Malik

Shame on those scientists who are unwilling to embrace the importance of philosophersLast week it was revealed that Edinburgh University ’s David Purdie had discovered aletter from Albert Einstein in which the great scientist notes the importance of 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume in developing his theory of special relativity.Without having reading Hume ’s A Treatise of Human Nature, Einstein wrote: “I cannot say that the solution would have come.”Continue reading...
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