SUO: Monolithic ontologies
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John / Ian,
The following is from a recent book review in the New York Times of "Einstein's
Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time" by Peter Galison a well known historian
of science at Harvard and a recipient of one of the MacAuthor "genius awards"
"My question is not how different scientific communities
pass like ships in the night," he wrote in "Image and Logic." "It is rather
how, given the extraordinary diversity of the participants in physics — cryogenic
engineers, radio chemists, algebraic topologists, prototype tinkerers, computer
wizards, quantum field theorists — they speak to each other at all.
I thought you might find it interesting in light (?) of your previous exchanges
regarding science and ontology. The complete review is at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/24TIME.html
Bob