Foucault? The physicist Foucault [1] responsible for the Foucault Pendulum and many other advances? Or the philosopher Foucault [2] responsible for some unfalsifiable fluff of great interest to philosophy department tea parties -- conversations that typically return to Jacques Derrida [3], the "show-stopper" who thought there was no basis for shared, objective truths, and whose views are regularly discussed as though their decoded meaning doesn't contradict the possibility of their productive discussion.
It's a sign of the times that, in Web searches, Foucault the philosopher completely buries Foucault the physicist.
(I got snookered into reading this because "power" has a meaning in physics apart from its meaning in philosophy -- the former of which actually means something.)
It's a sign of the times that, in Web searches, Foucault the philosopher completely buries Foucault the physicist.
(I got snookered into reading this because "power" has a meaning in physics apart from its meaning in philosophy -- the former of which actually means something.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Foucault
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida