Post : ¿Shifting Paradigms? • 3 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/08/22/shifting-paradigms-%e2%80%a2-3/ Posted : August 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm Author : Jon Awbrey
Peircers, A few thoughts on mathematical inquiry that arose in connection with a number of perennial issues ... Re: Harvey Friedman • Good Math At: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2014-August/018098.html Speaking of mathematics in the context of “general intellectual activity” brings to mind Raymond Wilder's take on “mathematics as a cultural system”. ☞ http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Wilder.html I would like to keep that in mind, if on a back burner, and focus on a more directed species of intellectual activity that goes under the name of “inquiry”, the flower of which species we know as “scientific method”, however much method or madcap various lights may see in it. Whatever the case, that brings us to the task of placing mathematical inquiry within the sphere of inquiry in general. Here I can do no better than recommend C.S. Peirce's theory of inquiry as one of the best tacks we can take for approaching this task. Jon Awbrey -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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