数学是永恒的、普遍的真理吗?或者数学家只是在他们的过程中编出来的?如果方程是编造的,为什么它们如此有用?We’ll be discussing these questions, and more on this week’s episode, “The Mysterious Timelessness of Math.”
Mathematics
数学是永恒的、普遍的真理吗?或者数学家只是在他们的过程中编出来的?如果方程是编造的,为什么它们如此有用?We’ll be discussing these questions, and more on this week’s episode, “The Mysterious Timelessness of Math.”
Is metaphysics just a bunch of nonsense? Is it okay to believe something you could never prove? Could logic be a solution to the world’s problems? This week on Philosophy Talk, we’re thinking about the Vienna Circle, a group of Austrian philosophers from the 1920s who debated these questions.
Shouldn’t everybody have an equal vote? Isn’t majority rule just an excuse to keep minorities down? Is a truly fair democracy even possible? And how do we decide what counts as fair in the first place? This week on Philosophy Talk, we’ll explore answers to these questions!