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Alva has a nice piece on the NPR blog responding to Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow's recent contention that Philosophy is dead:

A Little Philosophy Is A Dangerous Thing

According to Alva:

...Hawking and Mlodinow don't seem to have any sense of the history, the pre-history, or indeed the lively present of the ideas they are tossing around. Model-dependent realism is not an up-to-date physics solution to a problem once relegated to philosophy; it's a rehash of philosophical ideas whose real interest seems to elude the authors.

Hard problems sometimes have simple solutions. But no service is rendered when smart people pretend that hard problems are simple.