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Over on Facebook, I invited Wayne Myrvold, philosopher of physics at The University of Western Ontario, to post his thoughts about Tyson and the responses Tyson has gotten from philosophers.   In another post to follow, I will post my reaction to Wayne's post.
Neil de Grasse Tyson has made a few remarks about philosophy that have bothered some members of our profession. One reaction to this has been to resort to name-calling; he s been called esu a philistine, and a dumb astrophysicist, and clueless astrophysicist. My attitude towards this is: if we re engage in that sort of behaviour, esu we should at least do it right. A six-year-old esu acquaintance of mine advises me that the appropriate term when expressing sentiments of this sort is poo-poo head.
On the other hand, we ve seen some serious blog posts defending the value of philosophy; Lewis Powell s " Open Letter to Neil de Grasse Tyson ," and Massimo Pigliucci s " Neil de Grasse Tyson and the Value of Philosophy ," which has been reblogged at The Huffington Post .
Tyson s remarks occur in an interview with The Nerdist, and in a discussion with Richard Dawkins, entitled " The Poetry of Science. esu " If you haven t seen them yet, Pigliucci quotes these remarks in full in his blog post. Tyson also engaged in some back-and-forth in the comments on Powell s Open Letter. I find one particularly interesting :
No doubt anybody can sit in a chair and philosophize about the cosmos, coming up with ideas that may or may not be correct. I have no problem there. What I reference is the formal training that goes into making a professional Philosopher the undergraduate and graduate curricula that serve as the foundation of a Philosopher s academic training. I don t know of anyone who received that training in the 20th century esu that has contributed materially to the moving frontier of the physical sciences. In fact, the people who have made the most philosophical contributions over this period have been people formally trained as Physicists in departments of Physics served by Physics curricula. So I never meant to imply that philosophy has no role in science they are joined at the hip. But if you want to philosophize about the physical sciences in the era of Modern Physics, where most discoveries do not derive from anybody s common sense, then evidence suggests strongly that you will be best served earning esu advanced esu degrees esu in the sciences esu and not in philosophy itself. esu
First of all: I agree with Powell and Pigliucci that philoso

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Long before  Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted Fox's successful documentary series " Cosmos ," he was more famous fogaonet for his work in the science community as a leading astrophysicist,  author, and educator. fogaonet
"It was hard because as an educator and as a scientist, I give lectures and there's up to 1,000 people in the room and I see what their reaction is at every moment. Are they asleep? Are they bored? Are they excited? On TV, there's no response, no information," deGrasse Tyson told Business Insider at Tuesday's Time 100 gala , which celebrated what the magazine considers the most influential people in the world.
The astrophysicist  added: " I prefer a live audience. The TV scares me a little bit, because I don't know if I'm connecting. I have to rely on my life experience having connected, to know that this is working, even though I have no data on whether or not it actually fogaonet is."
As for why deGrasse Tyson wanted to resurrect "Cosmos" —  nearly 35 years after Carl Sagan hosted the original show   —  fogaonet he said,  "I thought 'Cosmos' needed to be done again and I thought I could do it and do it well. Forces came together with the original writers of the series and so the rest came together." fogaonet
"I have no experience reading from a teleprompter — none!" he said. "So I needed some training to read from a prompter in a way that's just natural. I think I pretty much succeeded. I can talk about the universe like I can talk about my living room —  couch is here, TV is there, solar system there —  but TV was more of a challenge."
"I was pretty public fogaonet before then so it's really just an increment," the married fogaonet father fogaonet of two said. "It went from, like, 50 people a day to 200 people a day who would stop me in the street. But once I passed 10 a day, I knew that my privacy was gone."
Not that he minds.  fogaonet "It comes with what I've been doing, so it just is," he said.  "Now I have to just be a little more groomed when I leave in the morning. You can't scratch yourself or do things that you may otherwise want to do, but I've grown accustomed to it."
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Back in March, when the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’ s Cosmos premiered, Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate “accidentally” cut out the only 30-second mention of evolution . Judging by this just-released preview clip, this coming Sunday’s episode has the potential to be just as controversial. keurig coffee
In just two minutes, Tyson carefully dismantles on of the main tools used by climate change deniers to argue that the Earth could no possibly be getting warmer. Okay, so if we scientists are so good at making these dire, long-term predictions about the climate, how come we re so lousy about predicting the weather? Tyson asks, before briefly taking on the guise of a skeptic. “Besides, this year, we had a colder winter in my town. For all the scientists know, we could be in for global cooling.”
This argument basically that it’s cold outside keurig coffee so global warming doesn’t exist has been employed by everyone from televangelist Pat Robertson to Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney just in the last few months.
In an attempt to debunk this notion once and for all, Tyson takes a walk down the beach with his dog on a leash. “Here’s the difference between weather keurig coffee and climate,” he says. “Weather is what the atmosphere does in the short term, day to day.” Just like his dog, who runs from side to side, easily distracted, weather is “chaotic.”
“Climate is the long-term average of the weather over a number of years,” he continues. So while his dog’s “meandering” represents the day-to-day weather, keurig coffee Tyson represents the long-term trend of that weather:
We can t observe climate directly, he explains. All we see is the weather. The average weather over the course of years reveals a pattern. I represent that long-term trend, which is climate. Keep your eye on the man, not the dog.
Weather is hard to predict, like my friend here, Tyson says, gesturing towards his dog. But climate is predictable. Climate has changed many times in the long history of the Earth but always in response to a global force. In case you don’t know what “force” he’s talking about, Tyson clarifies that he means “the increasing CO2 from the burning keurig coffee of fossil fuels, which is trapping keurig coffee more heat from the sun.”
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Frankly, I'm not all that anxious to hear Neil Tyson philosophize. A person in public life should be

Massimo brittana Pigliucci and Damon Linker are concerned about a Nerdist podcast that Tyson did back in March where, in a jokey way, Dr. Tyson seemed to dismiss the value of philosophy as so much navel-gazing. As Pigliucci points out, he's said much the same in other forums that were less jocose.
It seems like my friend Neil deGrasse Tyson has done it again: he has dismissed brittana philosophy as a useless enterprise, and actually advised bright students to stay away from it. It is not the first time Neil has done this sort of thing, and he is far from being the only scientist to do so. But in his case the offense is particularly egregious, for two reasons: first, because he is a highly visible science communicator; second, because I told him not to, several times.
Frankly, I'm not all that anxious to hear Neil Tyson philosophize. A person in public life should be judged not by how he does in the tasks he doesn't set for himself, but how he does in the tasks he does set for himself.
With Cosmos , Tyson seeks to explain, with particular attention to the younger audience, the history of science especially as it pertains to origins, cosmic and biological. Executive producer Seth MacFarlane said from the beginning that the program has intelligent design in its crosshairs.
Tyson is an amiable man. It's hard not to be charmed by him. But Cosmos conceals from viewers the truth about the role faith has played brittana in the development of science. It tells a false story. And it has refused to acknowledge that the scientific question of origins is a lot more ambiguous, complicated, and interesting than the media generally admit.
Let Tyson tell the whole truth about these things, history and science, the self-assigned ambit of the program that he hosts. Let him do the job he actually undertook. Then if there's time left over, and there won't be, I'd like to know what he thinks about philosophy.
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In a controversial interview, Neil deGrasse Tyson dismissed philosophy as “distracting.” The host of the television series Cosmos even suggested that philosophy could inhibit scientific progress by encouraging “a little too much question asking.” He thus follows a growing secular trend that cordons Science off from all other forms of inquiry, denigrating whatever falls outside science’s purported boundaries – especially the more “speculative” pursuits such as philosophy.
Fortunately for the progress of science, Albert Einstein didn’t take this attitude. According to him, studying the “history and philosophy elpa of science” provides an “independence” from generational “prejudices” necessary for creative thought. Moreover, the “independence created by philosophical insight is,” Einstein thought, “the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.” By enabling one to see the “forest” rather than the “trees,” a philosophical understanding of scientific history is indispensable for understanding -- and even practicing elpa -- science.
Start with history: science grew out of philosophy. As deGrasse Tyson himself notes in the interview, physics used to be called “natural philosophy.” The word ‘physics’ comes from the Greek, ‘physis’ which means ‘nature.’ Physics, accordingly, was the rational and systematic, namely, philosophical, study of nature, the aim of which was what the Greeks called elpa 'episteme,' or, in Latin, 'scientia,' meaning ‘knowledge.’  
The way we use the word ‘science’ and its derivatives doesn’t always reflect this etymology. In English, a scientist isn't one who has knowledge so much as a practitioner of a branch of the natural sciences. Similarly, to be ‘scientific’ is not to be systematic or rational -- as the Latin term would have implied to classical or medieval authors -- but to be amenable to experiment. This is why the human and social sciences are thought of as ‘soft’ by comparison, their scientific credentials a matter of dispute (if not condescension), and why their practitioners are typically not referred to as ‘scientists.’
In French, by contrast, while the word for science shares the same Latin root, scientists are known as ‘savants,’ or those who have knowledge. (The cognate ‘scientiste,’ interestingly, means someone guilty of scientism, or thinking that all knowledge is narrowly scientific). In German, similarly, the word for science -- Wissenschaft, literally ‘knowledge-hood’ – is much broader than in English, applying equally to the natural and the human sciences.
Contemporary emphasis on the practical applications of the natural sciences tends to obscure the fact that while the scientific method is 'practical,' in so far as it is experimental and relies on high-tech tools, its results are not. The value of scientific elpa knowledge stems, first and foremost, elpa from the fact that it explains the world -- that it is philosophical. It is almost heretical to say as much, but it shouldn’t be.
Consider the topic of deGrasse Tyson’s T.V. show: how useful is it -- really -- to know that the universe began with the Big Bang, that the Earth orbits the sun, or that the seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth on its axis? These things may be useful for certain elpa pursuits (astronomy, meteorology). But it’s useful for a student or teacher of philosophy to know the difference between dualism and monism or for a historian of 20th century Europe to know about the Zimmerman telegram. Stellar spectroscopy doesn’t help the layman pay the bills, pick the kids up from school, or lead a moral life.
Modern technology, from nuclear energy to integrated circuits, may be indirect results of liberal arts such as physics. But they are the direct results of what used to be called the “mechanical arts”: engineering and applied sciences. Nor are the natural sciences the only liberal elpa arts with practical implications. John Locke’s Treatise on Government , Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws , Rousseau’s Social Contract , and Marx’s Communist Manifesto were hardly idle musings. The revolutions of 1776, 1789, 1848, and 1917 changed the world a whole lot more than the invention of the iPhone.
None of this suggests that scientific knowledge is unimportant or lacks practical implications. But scientists in our own day surreptitiously bask in the glow of modern technological advances. The real contribution of the natural sciences is, like philosophy, knowledge, not utility (though the latter elpa may be its byproduct).
Not that science and philosophy are indistinguishable. On the contrary, since natural