Abstract
THE relations between science and philosophy to have assumed a new aspect in this generation. The remarkable developments of physics, which have called for a reconsideration of certain fundamental concepts, have made it, if not impossible, at least highly undesirable, for these two departments of thought to maintain the attitude of superior indifference with which labourers in each have sought to conceal their incapacity for the work of the other. The physicist, if he is to avoid the slough of metaphysics which lies close to his new scene of operations, must learn to recognize its characteristics ; and the philosopher, seeing his categories overrun by barbarians, is forced to fight the invaders with their own weapons, in the use of which he is unskilled. An interesting situation is thus created, which, it is to be hoped, will develop into better understanding and more friendly relations.
Philosophy and the Physicists
By Prof. L. Susan Stebbing. Pp. xvi + 295. (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1937.) 7s. 6d. net.
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D., H. Philosophy and the Physicists. Nature 141, 307–308 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141307a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141307a0
