When mathematician Hermann Weyl decided to write a book on philosophy,
he faced what he referred to as "conflicts of conscience"--the
objective nature of science, he felt, did not mesh easily with the
incredulous, uncertain nature of philosophy. Yet the two disciplines
were already intertwined. In Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural
Science, Weyl examines how advances in philosophy were led by
scientific discoveries--the more humankind understood about the
physical world, the more curious we became. The book is divided into
two parts, one on mathematics and the other on the physical sciences.
Drawing on work by Descartes, Galileo, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, and
Newton, Weyl provides readers with a guide to understanding science
through the lens of philosophy. This is a book that no one but Weyl
could have written--and, indeed, no one has written anything quite
like it since.
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ISBN
9781400833337
Publisert
2021
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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