The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics : Cartesian linguistics, the mind-body problem and pragmatic evolution
Dauben, Joseph W. (City University of New York. Herbert II. Lehman College)

Data:	1999
Resum:	Victor Gomez-Pin highlighted succincty one object of the second Congress on Ontology held in San Sebastián and Barcelona in March of 1996 -by raising two questions due to Husserl about Descartes, namely: is there a persistent value to Descarte's most basic ideas? And if so, can they stimulete new, powerful ideas in our era? Indeed, one of the most interesting and fundamental puzzles that Descartes was the first to face with any success is the nature of the connections between mind and body, and the relevance of mathematics to both. It was the physicist Eugene Wigner, however, who called it the "unreasonable" elfectiveness of mathematics, by which he had in mind above all the powerful applications of mathematics to physics, which have proven crucial for the advance of modem science. 1 The Greeks showed and early interest in these most basic questions of ontology and eplstemology, and from the answers given by such ligures as the Pythagoreans and Plato in antiquity, it is clear that mathematics played a fundamental part in their analysis and understanding of nature.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Cartesianisme ; Matemàtica ; Filosofia
Publicat a:	Enrahonar, 1999, p. 125-137 (Articles) , ISSN 2014-881X

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DOI: 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1080

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