[FRIAM] on Feynman, again

[Nick Thompson]

Glen, etc.

I took issue not with Feynman as a person, but with the off-quoted "aphorism", attributed to him,  that scientists have no more use for philosophy of science than birds have for ornithology.  The only reason birds don't have use for ornithology is that they can't read.  I assume that that disability does not apply to the scientists mentioned in the aphorism. 

Nick  

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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Since we recently went 'round about quoting and criticizing people who quote Feynman, I thought this would be interesting.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3488

> if you write, for example, that Richard Feynman was a self-aggrandizing chauvinist showboater, then even if your remarks have a nonzero inner product with the truth, you don’t thereby “transcend” Feynman and stand above him, in the same way that set theory transcends and stands above arithmetic by constructing a model for it.  Feynman’s achievements don’t thereby become your achievements.


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