Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher

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Colin McLarty
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3181-7537

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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.

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McLarty, C. (2020). Mathematics as a love of wisdom: Saunders Mac Lane as philosopher. Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce), (69), 17–32. Retrieved from https://zfn.edu.pl/index.php/zfn/article/view/528
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