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Physics and Philosophy1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Arthur S. Eddington
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I think it will be agreed that there is a domain of investigation where physics and philosophy overlap. There are branches of philosophy which do not approach the subject-matter of physics, and a great part of the work of practical and theoretical physicists is not aimed at extending our knowledge of the fundamental nature of things; but questions which concern the general interpretation of the physical universe and the significance of physical law are claimed by both parties. I suppose that ideally the physicist should be allowed to elucidate his own universe up to a point, and then hand it over to the philosopher to ascertain its exact status in relation to a wider outlook.

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Philosophy , Volume 8 , Issue 29 , January 1933 , pp. 30 - 43
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1933

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page 38 note 1 I would refer the critical reader to my contribution to the symposium Indeterminacy and Indeterminism, Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. X (1931)Google Scholar, where the presentation is more detailed than is practicable in lectures.

page 40 note 1 Philosophy and the Ordinary Man (Paul, Kegan, 1932).Google Scholar Italics are mine.