Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher
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 i...
Main Author: | Colin McLarty |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Center Press
2020-12-01
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Series: | Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce |
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Online Access: | https://zfn.edu.pl/index.php/zfn/article/view/528 |
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