Still in the province of philosophy

Alva Noë on The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow:

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow do not succeed in murdering philosophy in their recent book The Grand Design. Nor do they even try. Perhaps this is because they believe, as they blandly announce on the first page, that philosophy is already dead.

But the joke’s on them. If philosophy were a big burlap bag, then these writers seem to have delivered us their book higgledy-piggledy from somewhere in the dark within.

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John D. Boy is an assistant professor of sociology at Leiden University as well as a contributing editor at The Immanent Frame and an associate editor for Frequencies. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York.

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