{"id":4417,"date":"2011-05-23T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2011\/05\/23\/philosophy-dead"},"modified":"2011-05-23T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T08:58:00","slug":"philosophy-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2011\/05\/23\/philosophy-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/8520033\/Stephen-Hawking-tells-Google-philosophy-is-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegraph piece this morning<\/a>, declares that Philosophy is dead:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/eb\/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg\" style=\"clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/eb\/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg\" width=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color:#282828;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px\">But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a series of comments attached to the piece itself: my initial reaction was <i>he has a very narrow sense here of what philosophy is, and what it is for&#8230;.<\/i><br \/><i><br \/><\/i><br \/>Do others agree? (for comments via our Facebook group see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rpeglos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/rpeglos<\/a> )<br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif\">The nice people at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophynow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Philosophy Now<\/a> have taken a response by Chris Norris from behind their paywall &#8211; so we can all read it &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophynow.org\/issue82\/Hawking_contra_Philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.philosophynow.org\/issue82\/Hawking_contra_Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; thanks to them&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking, in a Telegraph piece this morning, declares that Philosophy is dead: But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,339,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead","category-hawking","category-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}