Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Science is our best answer, but it takes a philosophical argument to prove that

Scientists and philosophers have long been at one anothers throats over lifes big questions. Now a novelist with a foot in each camp wants to get Plato involved

For some time now the discipline of philosophy has been under something of an assault from the world of science. Four years ago Stephen Hawking announced that philosophy was dead. He was referring specifically to the philosophy of science, which he said was still bogged down in epistemological questions from which science had moved on.

But philosophy in general has increasingly been viewed as irrelevant by many scientists. Its a perspective that may be best summed up by the cosmologist Lawrence M Krauss, who has said: science progresses and philosophy doesnt.

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