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Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher
Philosophical Problems in Science 69:17-32 (2020)
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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.Author's Profile
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.Hermann Weyl - 1949 - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Edited by Olaf Helmer-Hirschberg & Frank Wilczek.
From Kant to Hilbert: a source book in the foundations of mathematics.William Bragg Ewald (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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