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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