Category Archives: Rationalism in Science

Part A is an abstract of the paper bearing the same title. Its full text – in “Our Pub” Library.  Part B is added as a supplement. A. The pragmatist approach, as stated in this essay, takes into account two … Continue reading →

This post completes the paper “Mathesis Universalis revisited owing to Cantor, Frege, Einstein and Gödel“, offered as a contribution to the Poznań, October 2011, Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Informatics. It is both an abstract and an additional … Continue reading →

§1. On the emergence of informationistic worldview (informatism) When looking at the development of European thought from bird’s-eye view,  we observe  three great periods  of  mutual  influences  between the state of science (that is, empirical teories with mathematics) and a … Continue reading →

[stextbox id=”info”]To continue enter “It from Bit”  in “Our Pub” Library. [/stextbox] According to  the viewpoint  which I suggest to call computational rationalism, the first of these questions  should be answered in the affirmative, while the second remains open,  being … Continue reading →

When describing rationalism as computational,  I mean making a substantial use  of the data-program distinction  in order to elucidate crucial ideas of classical rationalism, to wit that of  the truth of reason  (veritas rationis),  and  that of  the light of … Continue reading →

This seems to be wrong, indeed.  For authorities claim unanimously that Aristotle was an empiricist who opposed Plato’s rationalism, and that Aquinas followed his viewpoint.  As an evidence they quote Aristotle’s famous maxim about the human mind as an empty … Continue reading →