How French Philosopher Henri Bergson Helped 20th-century Biologists Get Creative About Evolution

[@daphneb100]

This lady is fantastic. Putting Bergson in context is so very helpful.

[@James-ll3jb]

Unusual for a female librarian.😅

[@artlessons1]

Thank you ...Many of the great philosophers come from a math background; in fact, it was a requirement of Plato to enter his academy. So, it was a natural progression of academic maturity. I am an artist, though well-read in philosophy. I very much agree with much of Betgson's thoughts. In fact, my first commission ( by a school) was later removed by the school because it was more philosophical and metaphysical than the empiricist math ruler in the science lab. It's nice to hear the other side of real thinkers rather than the social media overplay of the English. Tea toddlers, Christ whippers, and philosophy bashers. They do so for money and fame, opposite to Bergson and the real truth. Well done,thanks again

[@SeanAnthony-j7f]

Well at least most of the major early modern philosophers. Immanuel Kant, Leibniz, Hobbes did study Mathematics since it is generally part of the broader curriculum with logic, rhetoric, metaphysics and theology. However Kant conceived mathematics as a more broader part of his philosophical reflections, Leibniz also did but also advanced the practice of mathematics while Hobbes incorporated mathematics to his natural philosophical inquiry but flanked out because of the squaring the circle controversy with John Wallis. That kinda summed up how hard it is to gain both expertise to a scientific field and to an academic philosophical inquiry. Likewise all of them contributed to natural philosophy or generally in the modern sense science. Leibniz is a polymath, Hobbes is also quite polymathic and Kant formulated or anticipated the Nebulae hypotheses that is the standard explanation for the early formation of the solar system in our milky way and also wrote in geography, hydrodynamics, earthquakes, the wind, fire and kinematics.

[@SeanAnthony-j7f]

Charles Darwin was in fact heavily influenced by David Hume. Theorizing on how to do science is really hard without a map, you don't just pick a stone, compare and without having any radiometer won't immediately give you answer (especially when casual chain of reasoning can be very wacky)- these are some major philosophers has already been mastered since they do it for almost 2100 years now...

[@sdts8847]

Wow

[@celestialteapot309]

l am a Dawkins fan, but those tweets are ignorant.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

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