Mathematics as Ontological-Cognitive Participation: Reconstructing Ethical and Metaphysical Foundations within a Humanized Mathematical Universe

Md. Zahir Alam, Jahangir Alam and Zawad Rami
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Md. Zahir Alam: Department of Philosophy, Shachindra College, Pukra-3351, Habiganj
Jahangir Alam: Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202
Zawad Rami: Department of Languages, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 11, 3874-3885

Abstract: The status of mathematics on the ontological or epistemological level is still undetermined even though it has been debated by realist, constructivist and formalist traditions. This paper pursues a dual-aspect view of mathematics with the Humanized Mathematical Universe (HMU), where it is assumed that mathematics lives as metaphysical structure and as embodied cognitive activity. Through reconstructing some foundational positions, the paper illustrates how currently available frameworks fail to account for mathematical universality and (human) access to mathematical structure as well as their ethical implications. According to the HMU model, mathematical entia are cosmological potentialities needing human cognition for actualization, causing a participative ontological relationship between mind and cosmos. The analysis adds that doing logic today is morally significant as a practice because of its role in the mechanics of algorithmic governance, artificial intelligence, genetic computation, and financial automation. The results reveal that mathematical warrant needs to encompass three kinds of evaluation: structural congruence, epistemic deeming and normative adequacy. Hence HMU synthesis refashions mathematics as epistemologically unified, where ontology, cognition and ethics are mutually enmeshed. The thesis argues that mathematics should be considered not as a neutral formal language,  but as a metaphysically real and ethically responsible world-building process in which we participate.

Date: 2025
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