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Mathematicians always have a philosophy. The only question is whether they know themselves well enough for it to be explicit.
by richardanaya 4y ago
Mathematicians always have a philosophy. The only question is whether they know themselves well enough for it to be explicit.
- n4r9 4y agoI'm inclined to agree, and to extend the statement to physicists as well. Sometimes I even wonder if they're being disingenuous, for example Stephen Hawking on the one hand says "Philosophy is dead" and on the other hand actively engages in the debate over philosophical realism: https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/stephen-hawkings-model-dependent-realism-2b2973af41a6 https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/...
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoMaybe he thought philosophy is an attempt to figure out cosmology from pure thought.
- Koshkin 4y agoPhilosophically speaking, everything is (or can be) a subject of philosophy, including philosophy itself.