The death of Philosophy: a response to Stephen Hawking

Scott, Callum D.

doi:10.1080/02580136.2012.10751783

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“…Máhrik compares Hawking's standpoint with that of Kierkegaard. »While for Hawking philosophy is dead by the very character of the Universe, where man is just a quantum machine with no free will living in a world where there is no room for metaphysical reality, for Kierkegaard, philosophy is also dead, but this is because human aspirations and their existential aim exceed the realm offered by Philosophy.« (Máhrik 2014, 30) Harman (2012) compares philosophy to art, arguing against Hawking that »philosophy is no more dead than art« (22; Scott 2012). Heidegger (1977, 176) goes even further in his criticism, pointing out that physics itself cannot become an object of experiments.…”

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Christianity and Information: Contributions of Stephen Hawking to Physics, Philosophical Ethics, and Theology

Ambrozy¹,

Krempaský²

2020

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Following the recent death of the famous physicist S. Hawking, the question of his contribution to science has appeared with new urgency. Despite his known handicap, he was immensely active in the field of physics but also in the areas of philosophy and theology. The aim of the present paper is to analyze his contributions related to the nature of the Universe, its beginning and possible end, as well as the consequences stemming from this knowledge for philosophy and theology. We start with Hawking´s discoveries in the fields of physics and cosmology and apply them to informatics. Subsequently, we extrapolate the acquired results to theology and philosophy, taking a closer look at issues of eschatology.

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confidence: 99%