Sounds bad, and I think Hegel is a crank, but this, if genuine, is a one-sided story from a spouse who really wasn't looking for help in her marriage (on Reddit, of all places!).
Also, let's be frank, both philosophers and physicists spend most of their time talking past one another at the best of times. So unless both of these people are willing to actually engage in the literature that each is respectively immersed in, they should avoid talking to each other about these things entirely. By engagement, I mean a sincere attempt to understand the ideas on their own terms, without leaping to conclusions or insisting that they understand it already.
One of my least favorite things about academia is the disciplinary superiority complex everyone seems to carry around with them. I've jumped around about 3 or 4 disciplines in my career, and every one of them thought they were better and smarter than the others, but know what? wasn't true.
Hi olibaw, could you provide a bit of context here around what you found interesting on this post and perhaps the kind of discussion you had hoped to spark here? I thought it was neat, but I think I'm missing some connection.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.5 ms ] threadAlso, let's be frank, both philosophers and physicists spend most of their time talking past one another at the best of times. So unless both of these people are willing to actually engage in the literature that each is respectively immersed in, they should avoid talking to each other about these things entirely. By engagement, I mean a sincere attempt to understand the ideas on their own terms, without leaping to conclusions or insisting that they understand it already.
One of my least favorite things about academia is the disciplinary superiority complex everyone seems to carry around with them. I've jumped around about 3 or 4 disciplines in my career, and every one of them thought they were better and smarter than the others, but know what? wasn't true.