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On philosophy of mathematics, have you checked out Reuben Hersh? Or Lakatos? They're much more interesting to me than the usual platonism/formalism. I'm guessi
by calibraxis 16y ago
On philosophy of mathematics, have you checked out Reuben Hersh? Or Lakatos? They're much more interesting to me than the usual platonism/formalism.
I'm guessing platonism/formalism were popular in arguing against other ways of understanding the world, like folk science, authoritarianism and mysticism. (I'm not equating the last three.) Maybe also as a foundation myth for professional mathematics.
- asdflkj 16y agoThanks--I'll check them out. I hope it's the kind of stuff that is only called philosophy, but actually falls under the purview of science, which doesn't yet have a framework to deal with it. That's the only kind of "philosophy" I've ever found of value.