Talk:Mathematical philosophy
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editI found, as the second 'graph of Philosophy of mathematics
- The terms philosophy of mathematics and mathematical philosophy are frequently used interchangeably.[1] The latter, however, may be used to refer to several other areas of study. One refers to a project of formalizing a philosophical subject matter, say, aesthetics, ethics, logic, metaphysics, or theology, in a purportedly more exact and rigorous form, as for example the labors of scholastic theologians, or the systematic aims of Leibniz and Spinoza. Another refers to the working philosophy of an individual practitioner or a like-minded community of practicing mathematicians. Additionally, some understand the term "mathematical philosophy" to be an allusion to the approach to the foundations of mathematics taken by Bertrand Russell in his books The Principles of Mathematics and Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.
- ^ Maziars, Edward A. (1969). "Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics (Book Review)". Philosophy of Science. 36 (3): 325. doi:10.1086/288262.. For example, when Edward Maziars proposes in a 1969 book review "to distinguish philosophical mathematics (which is primarily a specialised task for a mathematician) from mathematical philosophy (which ordinarily may be the philosopher's metier)", he uses the term mathematical philosophy interchangeably with philosophy of mathematics.
which amounts to an off-topic digression about things that are confused with the topic stated in the first sent of the first 'graph (and for too many reasons to enumerate, not an acceptable approach to disambiguation). What i've done is to repurpose the substance of the unacceptable content into a Dab page -- one which is non-compliant for lack the stubs or articles that would make it fit the "one blue, and optionally one red, link per Dab entry" standard. (And i note now my appreciation of the analysis of the ambiguity that apparently had otherwise been overlooked, and should now serve as a starting point (WP:Stub) for several IMO worthy articles.)
As one who thought philosophy might be a good major (but settled on physics), and had math as a quasi-second major (i seldom tire of talking about myself, so feel free to ask if you dare), i hope that whichever colleague's work that 'graph was, will not go unwasted -- even if my conceit of a Dab-page-in-transition-to-MOS-compliance concept gets squashed like a bug.
--Jerzy•t 12:54, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
I've removed the following hatnote from the main article:
This page is only a starting point for a Wikipedia disambiguation page that one editor considered potentially useful, and still violates several strong expectations for such pages. Its creator as a separate page (i.e., the editor who patched it together by salvaging otherwise unsuitable scraps from a earlier version of our philosophy of mathematics article) believes that colleagues with a better grasp of the interactions between mathematics and philosophy -- including, say, a graduate degree in one field, and an undergraduate major or strong minor in the other -- will find themself (or -selves) much better situated for the task.
the merits or otherwise of this page deserve some discussion but thats for the talk page and not for the article. --Salix alba (talk): 10:19, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
'not' philosophy of mathematics?!
editNow one of the same editors says it's not to be confused with philosophy of mathematics (despite being a synonym.) Is that a joke? Also it's kind of a joke you include only one modern philosopher of mathematics, and not ones that may be more major, like Pythagoras, Descartes, Leibniz, Gödel, and newer commentators, in addition to certain of the major logicians that built mathematical logic...--dchmelik (t|c) 09:48, 26 November 2017 (UTC)