Question

Hello,

Following the recent series of columns on what philosophy is (which I’m only at the beginning of reading), whose opening sections deal with the relation to the objects observed by the (empirical) scientist, perhaps the Rabbi would be interested in reading—and maybe even addressing in a future column—an article that I happened to come across just now, which was published recently (at the bottom it says that it is adapted from a book which, according to the publisher’s website, also came out recently, in May 2018). Here is the link:

https://alaxon.co.il/article/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9A-%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A2/

(If the link doesn’t work, the article is called “How Science Works?” by Gideon Lev, on the “Alaxon” website.)

I saw that the author of the article added, in a comment there, a quote from Niels Bohr, perhaps as a concise expression—or a belated motto—for his article. That same quote appeared in a comment on column 155 [though in a different translation]. It seems to me that Bohr’s claim about what science is appears in a much more comprehensive form in the above article, in terms of the areas of criticism and the presentation of alternative methods and approaches, than within the framework of the discussion that took place in the comments on the column.
Perhaps that is not sufficient reason to read the article or respond to it, but for me, reading the quote in two different places on the same day constituted a “necessary reason” for sending the link to the Rabbi… 🙂