Rovelli questions analytic realism, urging a science–philosophy dialogue

Physicist Carlo Rovelli argues in an interview that analytic philosophy’s naive realism oversimplifies the issue of what’s real, contending that questions about the reality of electrons or minds are not well-posed and that neither science nor philosophy can access ultimate reality. He promotes ongoing dialogue between science and philosophy, drawing on ideas from quantum gravity and his book On the Equality of All Things.