Why Physics and Philosophy?
The two subjects are historically very closely linked: the name for the subject we now call physics was, until the nineteenth-century, natural philosophy and most theoretical physicists prior to the mid-twentieth-century were also philosophers. More recently, modern physics has been the source of several problems which are as much philosophical as they are scientific, the most important of which are the paradoxes of quantum mechanics and the nature of space and time. This course gives you a unique chance to study these topics from both a physical and a philosophical point of view.
