Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher
Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher
Author(s): Colin McLartySubject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Copernicus Center Press
Keywords: naturalism;philosophy;mathematics;Aristotle;
Summary/Abstract: This note describes Saunders Mac Lane as a philosopher, and indeed as a paragon naturalist philosopher. He approaches philosophy as a mathematician. But, more than that, he learned philosophy from David Hilbert’s lectures on it, and by discussing it with Hermann Weyl, as much as he did by studying it with the mathematically informed Göttingen Philosophy professor Moritz Geiger.
Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 69
- Page Range: 17-32
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English