History and Philosophy of Physics

    

Neglect of Metaphysics

Authors: Michael J. Burns

“Not even false” is a saying that is part of the lore of academic physics. Metaphysics is said to be meaningless. But there are compelling arguments, that originate from the work of the rationalist philosopher Spinoza, and from the work of Godel, Church and Turing in the foundations of computer science, which relate physics to metaphysics. The principle of possibility from Spinoza and the understanding of metamathematics by computer scientists do apply to physics.

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