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I am not a professional philosopher, so I will rely on the collected knowledge of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0]. Of the logicians/computational t
by Kednicma 6y ago
I am not a professional philosopher, so I will rely on the collected knowledge of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0].
Of the logicians/computational theorists I mentioned, three have their own entries [1][2][3] and are each associated with their own philosophical bodies of work. Von Neumann lacks his own page, but makes up for it by being a recurring secondary character in stories of Russell and Gödel.
The QM physicists fare similarly, but are not credited as Great Men. I am okay with this. Bohr is discussed alongside his Copenhagen school [4], Heisenberg alongside his Uncertainty Principle [5]; but Pauli does not get a full page, being split between [4] and [6], a second Bohr page.
While I haven't shown that these folks are central to philosophy, I think that I've shown that some philosophers definitely consider them to be directly influential upon some part of the practice.
[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/ https://plato.stanford.edu/
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/
[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/
[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tarski/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tarski/
[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/
[5] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/
[6] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bohr-correspondence/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bohr-correspondence/