New PDF release: Intuition in Mathematics & Physics: A Whiteheadian Approach

By Ronny Desmet

ISBN-10: 1940447135

ISBN-13: 9781940447131

regardless of the numerous revolutions in technological know-how and philosophy in view that Newton and Hume, the superseded notion of an inevitable conflict among the abstractions of technological know-how and the deep intuitions of humankind is reconfirmed, time and again. The background of technological know-how is interpreted and awarded as a succession of victories over the military of our deceptive intuitions, and every good fortune of technological know-how is advertised as a defeat of instinct. rather than endorsing the trendy dogma fact can't be medical until it hurts the deep intuitions of mankind, and that we won't be clinical until we tame the authority of our instinct, the authors of this assortment spotlight advancements in twentieth and early twenty first century technological know-how and philosophy that experience the aptitude to help, or perhaps extra, Whitehead’s philosophical integration of the abstractions of arithmetic and physics with the deep intuitions of humankind. rather than accepting the authority of science-inspired philosophers to minimize and disenchant nature and humankind within the identify of our such a lot profitable clinical theories, the authors rigidity the modern relevance of Whitehead’s philosophical examine software of considering issues jointly – technological know-how and instinct; evidence and values – to advertise the elemental coherence that's required to begin development an ecological civilization.

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