The Philosophy of Reuben Hersh: A Nontechnical Assessment

William Labov ()
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William Labov: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics

A chapter in Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy, 2017, pp 351-354 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Reuben Hersh and I attended Harvard College in the 1940s. It was during the Second World War, when, as it was said, “they let anyone in.” The only training I had in mathematics was a first year Calculus course, and I have been trying to catch up ever since. Connections between philosophy and science may not have been as strong then as they are now. But I remember the reaction of my freshman advisor John Wild, a Thomist philosopher, when he spotted a Chemistry B course on my program. “Where,” he asked, “did you get that idolatry of science?” I was stunned. “This man is really intelligent,” I thought. “How could he tell from that one course that I have an idolatry of science? Because I do.”

Keywords: Attended Harvard University; Thomistic Philosophy; Calculus Course; Idolatry; Coercive Character (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_25

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