Robert P Crease explains why philosophy is so essential
Robert P Crease explains why philosophy is so essential
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -Winston Churchill
It's often said that you can't get something from nothing. And while this may be true for most practical applications of your life, it isn't true for our physical Universe.
The theory of computation has had a profound influence on philosophical thinking. But computational complexity theory is about to have an even bigger effect, argues one computer scientist.
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[Revised entry by Øystein Linnebo on July 25, 2011.
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Platonism about mathematics (or mathematical platonism) is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices. Just as electrons and planets exist independently of us, so do numbers and sets.
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Matt Dowd missed the first Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, organized in 1993 by Michael J. Crowe, but he has the group photo to prove he was part of the second event in 1995.
