What James Owen Weatherall thinks about mathematics
American philosopher of physics; Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine; author of The Physics of Wall Street and, with Cailin O'Connor, The Misinformation Age.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what James Owen Weatherall has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI would only say that the epistemic value comes from the process of us engaging with the work and coming to understand and extend it, not from the generation of true propositions or their proofs.