List: >From a recent paper by F Csatari, Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of >Mathematics. "an approach to mathematics following the philosophy-first principle (as opposed to the philosophy-last-if-at-all principle).
It seems to me that when reading CSP, some of us use the former and others use the latter approach! Cheers Jerry http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=19198&utm_campaign=LinkedIn&utm_medium=ldc#.VNZDLBZjNFw Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of Mathematics Ferenc Csatári Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Email: [email protected] Received February 28th, 2012; revised March 25th, 2012; accepted April 9th, 2012 The paper comments on a rather uncommon approach to mathematics called physicalist formalism. Ac- cording to this view, the formal systems mathematicians concern with are nothing more and nothing less than genuine physical systems. I give a brief review on the main theses, then I provide some arguments, concerning mostly with the practice of mathematics and the uniqueness of formal systems, aiming to show the implausibility of this radical view.
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