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Old 25th November 2012, 12:13 PM   #94
marplots
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Originally Posted by dafydd View Post
Which philosopher or philosophers did Micheal Faraday read at university?
I don't understand the implication. Are you saying that physicists are not well educated outside of their own disciplines?

I suppose that could be so. My plumber probably knows little about horticulture. I don't get anything useful out of the lack of reliance of physics on philosophy. What's rather more interesting is how much of philosophy deals with other disciplines like mathematics and physics. But it's what you'd expect in a field that encompasses rather more than physics alone. It's probably a good thing that physicists don't try to take on too much -- they get to specialize.
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