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Knowledge Missemination: L. Susan Stebbing, C.E.M. Joad, and Philipp Frank on the Philosophy of the Physicists (2020)

Tuboly, Adam Tamas (Author)

Perspectives on Science
Volume: 28
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-34

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/749741

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Science and culture Popularization Philosophy of science Physics 20th century, early Eddington, Arthur Stanley Jeans, James Hopwood Frank, Philipp Joad, C. E. M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson) Stebbing, Lizzie Susan

Science popularization might take different forms. In the early twentieth century, Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington presented the most successful endeavors. Philosophers were highly unimpressed and disturbed by these popular works and various authors declared their disagreement with the physicists' philosophical books against their own philosophical background. I will discuss three different philosophers, L. Susan Stebbing, C. E. M. Joad, and Philipp Frank, whose three lines of criticism represent three different forms of philosophy, social engagement, and scientific outlook. What is interesting is that there was a point when the most diverse philosophers (of science) agreed in contrast of their common enemy, namely, those popularizing scientists that have their reputation and use it to propagate false, or at least misleading views about science, culture, and values. What we shall see is how far this agreement went among these figures and how the divergent strategies culminated in very similar results regarding knowledge dissemination.

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