Seventy years on from Schrödinger’s pronouncement, specialisation makes it even harder to expect more than a tiny handful of scientists and philosophers to be in a position to venture into a genuinely new understanding of their (in reality) common enterprise, one that has the potential hugely to enrich both parties.
And not just between scientists and philosophers but between scientists and scientists. We know a lot in isolated pockets but we do not synthesize that knowledge across disciplines or even specializations often enough.
