/lit/ - Literature

>>20749505
>You can namedrop quantum chromodynamics all you want but anyone in physics can just ask you to calculate angular velocity off of a graph in linear time and after you fail he wont speak to you about physics ever again, as this is something first year students are doing in their sleep.

An undergrad on the left side of the Dunning-Kreuger slope might. Becker, Tegmark, Greene, Wilczek, etc. reference philosophy all the time. Pic related.

Same with other fields, Donald Hoffman for example.

But I think that Anyone overstates the case. Employment for philosophy PhDs is abysmal. By my reckoning, it seems like more people who write about the philosophy of x science have degrees in that discipline than in philosophy, by an impressive margin.

Maybe some programs do actually give their candidates coursework in a science, but most do not. At best it is optional outside of a few niche places like UC Irvine. Professionally, it's normally going to make more sense to get a degree in the science and take philosophy courses on the side than vice versa.

>>20681562
Very good, accessible intro to quantum foundations that shows how there are several competing paradigms that explain quantum mechanics. It goes a little light on information theoretic approaches ("It From Bit") and QBism and a bit too hard picking bones with the people responsible for the incoherent Copenhagen clusterfuck, but it's still good.

I think the main point it gets at is that the Copenhagen narrative of a world distinctly cut into classical and quantum is not only falsified by research but also philosophically incoherent, logical positivist garbage. It's only useful because it says, "shut up and calculate!" But you can embrace pragmatism without the philosophical baggage.

A good thing to note as we realize quantum phenomena don't only appear in very noise free lab enviornments, that's just the only place we could observe them at first. It should not be shocking that life takes advantage of quantum phenomena in processed like photosynthesis, since all chemistry is built up from quantum phenomena. Again, we let what we could understand blind us to what was happening.

>>20603691
Now that I did my rant I will post books.

This is a good intro on interpretations of quantum mechanics that is fine for a novice.