Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019) (opens in new tab)

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104 pointsxingyzt2y ago14 comments

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If you’re interested in Mach’s philosophy, which influenced Einstein heavily, I wrote about it here:

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-ernst-mac...

Anyone interested in Einstein's ontological and epistemological beliefs should read Arthur Fine's excellent "The Shaky Game - Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory".

One of the most rewarding books I have ever read.

the-mitr2y ago

Of possible interest (from a Soviet perspective)

https://archive.org/details/gribanov-albert-einstein-philoso...

https://archive.org/details/EinsteinAndThePhilosophicalProbl...

reocha2y ago

If you want more info on Einstein's political philosophy this is a good read: https://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/uploads/Einstein%...

xingyztOP2y ago

I swear submitted this post last night but now it shows I did it two hours ago? Spooky

dang2y ago

That's an artifact of HN's second-chance system. The system is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!

malodyets2y ago

I don’t know how dang does it, but the internet would be so much better if every community had even half as good a moderator.

idlewords2y ago

You are probably moving at high speed relative to the Hacker News server

m_mueller2y ago

Hacker News /ob/server

FTFY

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