But it still moves, just the same. Philosophy, though, asks whether the Truth of science is Real. Science was born from philosophy, which had its roots in wonder at nature. But the child seems to have killed off its philosophical parent.
Science is now the final authority.
Even the Pope turned to Science to prove that the Shroud of Turin is the real thing. The problem for philosophers is that Science keeps changing its Truth. Aristotle and Ptolemy s geocentric universe with its four basic elements was replaced by the new paradigms of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. Now we hear physicists talking about strings, neutrinos, and twenty-six dimensions. Richard Rorty , Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University.