"Philosophy Is Dead"

It was reported last week that Stephen Hawking doesn't think God had a hand in creating the universe. Burke's Corner is staggered by a couple of Hawking's assertions:

In his failure to exercise modesty in his pursuit of scientific knowledge, Hawking makes a particularly startling claim - that "philosophy is dead".From Plato and Aristotle to Maimonides and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel,Hawking dismisses how the human mind across cultures and millennia hasreflected on transcendence and humanity's...