René Thom: From Mathematics to Philosophy

Athanase Papadopoulos ()
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Athanase Papadopoulos: Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (IRMA) and Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation sur l’Acte Artistique (ITI CREAA)

A chapter in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, 2024, pp 385-429 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, I will discuss René Thom’s approach to philosophy based on his mathematical background. At the same time, I will highlight his connection with Aristotle, his criticism of the modern view of science as a predictive process, his ideas on mathematical education, his position with respect to the French school of mathematics that was dominant in his time, and his relationship with the philosophical community. I will also touch upon the connections between Thom’s ideas and those of Leibniz, Riemann, Freud and others.

Keywords: Reni Thom; Aristotle; Biology; Predictive science; Singularities; Morphology form; Morphogenesis; Analogy; Bourbari; Catastrophe theory; Linguistics; Cobordism; Structural stability; Hylemorphism; Homeomerous; Stratification; History of topology; Morphogenesis form; Morphology; Qualitative science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_98

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