Correction

Despite my lambasting of my Hum professor's paper topics, out of all the possible topics, I did end up writing about the philsophical basis of physics. The paper was written in a feverish stupor after I returned from the BU debate tournament, and was therefore absolutely terrible. Nevertheless, I concede that I was wrong about the merits of the topic. I was thinking a little too literally when I wrote that last post. Descartes did indeed have many useful insights into the philosophy of science and physics. In fact, I would argue that his Meditations develop a fairly complete epistemological system for doing good physics. I still, however, believe he was a much better mathematician than philosopher. Those proofs of the existence of God are simply insufferable and mostly unnecessary...