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...
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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 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0867-8286 2451-0602 |