Editing David Albert (section)

===Feud with Lawrence Krauss===
In March 2012, Albert published an extremely negative review of [[Lawrence Krauss]]' book ''[[A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing]]'' in ''[[The New York Times]]'' book review.<ref name="Albert-NYT">{{cite news |last1=Albert |first1=David |title=On the Origin of Everything |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html?_r=4 |work=The New York Times |date=23 March 2012}}</ref> Krauss claimed that his book counters religion and philosophy, and the book was cited by [[Richard Dawkins]] as comparable to [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]’s ''[[Origin of Species]]'', on the grounds that it upends the “last trump card of the theologian.” In his review, Albert lamented the way in which books like Krauss' forward critiques of religion that are "pale, small, silly, nerdy”, and expresses how "the whole business of approaching the struggle with religion as if it were a card game, or a horse race, or some kind of battle of wits, just feels all wrong".<ref name="Albert-NYT"/>  Disagreeing with the central thesis of Krauss' book, Albert wrote:
{{blockquote|The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of [[relativistic quantum field theories]], consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... they have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.}}

Krauss reacted vehemently and responded in an interview published in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', calling  Albert “moronic” and dismissing the philosophy of science as worthless.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Andersen |first1=Ross |last2=Krauss |first2=Lawrence |title=Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/has-physics-made-philosophy-and-religion-obsolete/256203/ |publisher=The Atlantic |date=23 April 2012}}</ref> In March 2013, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Albert, who had previously been invited to speak at the [[Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate]] at the [[American Museum of Natural History]], at which Krauss was also an invited speaker, was later disinvited.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |title=Worlds in Collision: After Tangle Over Physicist's Book, Philosopher's Invitation to a Debate Is Withdrawn |url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/worlds-in-collision-after-tangle-over-physicists-book-philosophers-invitation-to-a-debate-is-withdrawn/ |publisher=The New York Times, ArtsBeat |date=13 March 2013}}</ref> Albert claimed "It sparked a suspicion that Krauss must have demanded that I not be invited. But of course I’ve got no proof."